Korea Midland Power Co. (KOMIPO) held a ceremony to declare KOMIPO’s top 50 innovation tasks at KOMIPO headquarters in Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do, on Oct. 23.
The tasks were decided in a public contest held in September in six areas related to power generation, including expanded renewable energy, in accordance with raising productivity, restructuring of management regimes and ramping up cooperation with the private sector, based on the direction of the government’s innovation.
KOMIPO examined 243 innovation tasks, which were accepted in in-house and public contests, and selected 10 core, 15 priority and 25 general innovation tasks.
The civic innovation advisory group, which examined innovation tasks, called for spearheading efforts to raise productivity and efficiency as a public entity amid hard economic conditions in Korea and abroad, supporting the strengthening of the competitiveness of the private sector and implementing innovation corresponding to people’s needs through collaboration between KOMIPO’s worksites and local governments.
KOMIPO President Kim Ho-bin said, “We will do our best to spearhead innovation and growth of the private sector by implementing KOMIPO’s top 50 innovation tasks.”
Officials from Korea Midland Power Co., Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM), Inha University, Gangneung Wonju National University as well as KAIST professors attend a session to demonstrate hydrogen co-firing targeting the Boryeong Combined Cycle Power Plant in Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do, on Oct. 10.
KOMIPO Teams UP with 3 Institutions to Test Nation’s 1st Commercialization of Hydrogen Co-Firing
Korea Midland Power Co. (KOMIPO) demonstrated hydrogen co-firing targeting the Boryeong Combined Cycle Power Plant in Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do, on Oct. 10.
A meeting took place with R&D officials in attendance from the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM), Inha University, Gangneung Wonju National University as well as KAIST professors.
During the meeting, outcomes of tasks were presented, hydrogen co-firing was demonstrated and future plans were discussed.
Participants demonstrated hydrogen co-firing targeting 150MW gas turbines, and it confirmed the feasibility by meeting regulations on nitrogen oxide and causing no flame backfire.
The technology is expected to be commercialized at the Boryeong Combined Cycle Power Plant after completing projects to build blue hydrogen supply equipment and improve control equipment in 2027.
A blue hydrogen production facility with an annual capacity of 250,000 tons will be built. KOMIPO implemented the project to verify the hydrogen co-firing technology in October 2022.
The power company established a plan to realize a hydrogen 30 percent co-firing without remodeling combustion burners by late 2027, and increase co-firing rate and expand the technology to Incheon Combined Cycle Power Plant.
KOMIPO is seeking to build “no-coal-fired power complexes” at conventional fossil fuel power plants.
The power company plans to implement no-coal energy transition clusters in diverse areas through hydrogen production and development of hydrogen co-firing technologies, thus contributing to achieving the government’s carbon neutrality and invigorating the hydrogen economy.
KOMIPO President Kim Ho-bin said, “Technology development is essential to secure sustainability through aggressive no-coal power transition, and we will do our best to contribute to invigorating the clean hydrogen economy through developing of hydrogen co-firing technology.”
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