From left: Professor Mohsen Assadi, engineer Bjarte Hetlelid and doctoral fellow Reyhaneh Banihabib, with the world's first gas turbine running on pure hydrogen as a combustion fuel UiS
Researchers at the University of Stavinger in Norway say they are the first in the world to run a gas-fired turbine on 100% hydrogen. The micro gas power plant produces heat, electricity, and hot water for hydronic heating. MDN previously told you about another world first when the gas-fired power plant (currently powered by Utica Shale gas) along the banks of the Ohio River in Hannibal (Monroe County), OH, successfully added a 5% mixture of hydrogen to the natural gas it burns (see Utica Gas Power Plant on Ohio River Uses Hydrogen in World First). The Long Ridge Energy Terminal is the first large, commercial operation to mix in hydrogen with natural gas to produce electricity.
