HySpirits Projects
Project: HySpirits II
Timescale: 2020-2021
Funder: Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) through phase 1 of the Green Distilleries Competition
Funding: £58,781
Project overview: HySpirits II will investigate the feasibility of green hydrogen heating as a clean fuel solution for decarbonisation in the distilling sector.
The project builds on the first HySpirits project completed last year by broadening the investigation, assessing four different technology pathways to facilitate green hydrogen fuel-switching in the distilling sector. The technologies to be assessed within the project include; thermal fluid technology, steam technology, direct burn technology and dual fuel technology. Following assessment, the optimal technology pathway will be selected and used by the consortium to design a demonstration project to be considered for Phase 2 funding to prove the solution in a real-world context.
Partners:
- Edrington (Highland Park)
- Orkney Distilling Ltd.
- Edinburgh Napier University
- EMEC
Project news:
Jan 2020: Orkney Distilleries go green with Hydrogen
Project: HySpirits I
Timescale: 2019 – 2020
Funder: Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Funding: £148,600
Project overview: HySpirits aims to investigate the development of a thermal fluid heater system to operate with hydrogen as the combustion fuel within the distilling process. This system will remove the need to use fossil fuels such as kerosene and liquid petroleum gas (LPG), for the process.
Partners:
- Orkney Distilling Ltd.
- Edinburgh Napier University
- EMEC
Project news:
The Orkney Distillery (Photo credit Orkney Distilling Ltd)
