Samsung C&T’s construction division (hereinafter referred to as Samsung C&T) announced on the 8th that it has signed an EPC (design, purchase, and construction) contract with Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd. to store and unload hydrogen compounds in Samcheok, Gangwon-do. The contract is about 140 billion won, and the scheduled completion date is July 2027.
According to Samsung C&T, the project is to build a clean energy infrastructure such as a storage tank that compresses and stores 30,000 tons of hydrogen compounds for mixed-use power generation at the site of Samcheok Power Complex in Gangwon-do. This is the first time in Korea to build such a mixed-combustion power generation infrastructure (a power generation method that generates electricity by mixing and burning more than one type of fuel).
Samsung C&T has experience building a number of energy storage facilities in Qatar, Singapore, and Malaysia. It has also secured international certification for the world’s largest storage tank design technology in cooperation with Britain’s Whessoe, a global energy storage facility design company.
This hydrogen compound storage facility will be installed as a fully closed storage tank with a double wall structure rather than a single wall to improve safety. It plans to apply state-of-the-art detection and blocking systems as well as high-quality environmental facilities such as real-time environmental material monitoring systems.
When the project is completed, Southern Power plans to push for mixed-combustion power generation, which burns 20% of coal and hydrogen compounds, which are carbon-free fuels, to existing coal-fired power plants. Through this, Southern Power expects to reduce greenhouse gases by 1.1 million tons per year and improve air quality.
Shim Jae-won, vice president of the Southern Power and Technology Safety Headquarters, said, “The mixed hydrogen compound power generation infrastructure is significant as the first step in the transition to clean fuel,” adding, “We will successfully complete the project and contribute to reducing greenhouse gases in the country.”
In response, Lee Byung-soo, head of Samsung C&T’s energy solution business, responded, “We will participate in various renewable energy projects at home and abroad based on the EPC results secured through the first hydrogen compound mixing demonstration in Korea.”
SOURCE: mk.co.kr
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