Kawasaki Heavy Industries unveiled its liquid hydrogen (LH2) generation system in November, the first domestic manufacturer in Japan to do so.
The system has a capacity of five metric tons per day (tpd), with Kawasaki aiming to commercialise the system next year (2016).
Kawasaki is also developing a hydrogen gas turbine for power generation for potentially huge consumption of hydrogen and is planning to establish an integrated service system for demand and supply.
The experimental LH2 system is installed at the hydrogen technology demonstration centre inside Kawasaki’s Harima Plant, in southwest Japan. It comprises a hydrogen liquefying unit with a hydrogen receiving tank of 50m3 and two liquid hydrogen tanks of 70m3, for a production capacity of approximately five tpd.
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