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KEY MILESTONE THE world first HESC pilot plant reached a major milestone this week when the project began successfully producing hydrogen from Latrobe Valley brown coal. Project partner J-Power non-executive director Jeremy Stone described the event as a “critical” element after spending the past two months commissioning the plant adjacent to Loy Yang. Mr Stone said the plant began successfully producing hydrogen from coal gasification – a world first process using the region’s brown coal.
“This is a big landmark for the project. We’ve always believed we can produce hydrogen from Latrobe Valley coal, all the pieces are coming together,” Mr Stone said. “We are producing high quality and high purity hydrogen. “For the rest of the pilot we will adjust the settings and parameters to keep producing this high quality hydrogen.” It comes as National Energy Resources Australia earlier this week announced Gippsland as one of 13 regions in a $1.85 million investment to establish a nationwide hydrogen cluster. NERA said the clusters would operate
as a virtual network, with four Victorian locations listed in Gippsland, Geelong, Mallee, and Clayton. The Gippsland cluster is being led by the Committee for Gippsland to help the region build on its status as an “energy powerhouse”. Mr Stone said producing hydrogen at the Loy Yang site was the first of three processes to get off the mark in the HESC project, with the next two stages to be tested in the following months. He added the next phase was to successfully liquefy the hydrogen at Australia’s first hydrogen liquefaction plant at the Port of Hastings, which he
hoped would take place by the end of February. The third stage was to test transporting the liquefied product via a specially designed carrier in Japan by mid-year. “These are three very significant processes and one was to produce high quality hydrogen from Latrobe Valley coal and we’ve done that,” Mr Stone said. “We are trying to prove the supply chain and put all the pieces together. This will give confidence to the people of the world to move to hydrogen as it’s a clean burning energy.” CONTINUED PAGE 5
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