An experimental gas turbine simulator equipped with an ultralow-emissions combustion technology called LSI, has been tested successfully using pure hydrogen as a fuel.
The milestone development indicates the potential to help eliminate millions of tons of CO2 and thousands of tons of Nox from power plants each year.
The LSI (low-swirl injector) technology recently won a 2007 R&D 100 award from R&D magazine, as one of the top new technologies of the year and was developed by Robert Cheng of the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Cheng, who notes that these electricity generating turbines are similar in their operating principle to turbines that propel jet planes, commented, $quot;This is a kind of rocket science. The LSI principle defies conventional approaches.$quot;
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