Approtium to build a Hydrogen Rotary Engine Power Generation System
Business agreement with TP, LML Korea, and Luxco
Joint effort to promote old development, demonstration, and dissemination
Ulsan, the largest hydrogen production and utilization area in Korea, will challenge a new area called "hydrogen rotary engine" with a plan to utilize hydrogen without using fuel cells.
Approtium Co., Ltd., Korea’s largest hydrogen company, announced on the 21st that it recently signed an agreement
with Ulsan Techno Park, LEL Korea Co., Ltd., and Luxco on mutual business cooperation to promote research and development,
demonstration and distribution of hydrogen rotary engines and power.
Ulsan Technopark signed a business agreement to stably supply hydrogen from Approtium, the largest hydrogen company in Korea and a local company in Ulsan, and to test the system that develops into rotary engine performance and high-speed rotation.
LML Korea Co., Ltd. is a Gyeonggi-do company and has discussed power generation projects and production with Luxco Co., Ltd. in Ulsan to demonstrate the rotary engine jointly developed with Germany's VANKEL Co.
The purpose of the agreement is to establish a hydrogen rotary engine power generation system using hydrogen resources and to distribute small and medium-sized eco-friendly power generation systems to solve the imbalance of power supply and demand and respond to RE100 through eco-friendly electricity production.
Until now, hydrogen utilization has been mainly used to produce power and heat using hydrogen fuel cells or to apply it to mobility using hydrogen fuel cells.
However, if hydrogen is applied to the rotary engine, high-speed rotation can be obtained and power can be generated or immediately powered by its rotational power, drawing attention as a new way for mobility and power generation businesses.
This agreement aims to establish an efficient energy conversion system through the development of engines and power generation systems using △ hydrogen, contribute to the development of the hydrogen economy with abundant blue hydrogen and green hydrogen in △ Ulsan, and form a value chain for the hydrogen industry that can be produced in Ulsan through innovation and high-efficiency hydrogen engine development.
In addition, through the development of various hydrogen rotary engines in the future, it will be used as various power sources such as drones, UAM, APU, and ships necessary for the fourth industry to contribute to the development of the national economy and creation of new jobs.
Jung sang Kim, vice president of APROTIUM, said, "The use of hydrogen can spread not only to fuel cells, but also to rotary engines, large-scale mixed power generation, and mobility, so we can find the driving force for new industries as well as the hydrogen industry."