BHI announced that it signed a technology agreement with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) at the completion ceremony of the 'Ammonia Combustion Burner Test Bed' held at the Daejeon Electric Power Research Institute on the 22nd.
The newly constructed test bed is the first facility in Korea to verify high-efficiency combustion technology using ammonia as fuel, and its purpose is to demonstrate and commercialize ammonia combustion technology that does not emit greenhouse gases.
BHI has been developing a 1MWth-class ammonia combustion burner as a government project together with Hyundai Heavy Industries Power Systems (HPS) since 2024, and with the completion of this test bed, it plans to install a prototype with an expanded capacity of 151MWth at the Samcheok Power Plant for verification.
The demonstration will be conducted in the form of a pilot test for about a month starting in September after replacing one of the mobile burners in the Samcheok Thermal Power Plant with an ammonia combustion burner. Depending on the test results, KEPCO plans to replace a total of 32 mobile burners by 2027 and, in the long term, to promote a 20% ammonia co-firing demonstration at a 1,000 MW CFBC power plant.
Korea Electric Power Corporation predicts that if the related technology is commercialized, the power plant will be able to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 1 million tons per year.
Based on the agreement signed today, BHI and HPS plan to jointly pursue performance verification and advancement of the technology.
Through this demonstration project, BHI plans to prove the feasibility of ammonia combustion technology and, in the future, explore overseas markets, focusing on countries with a high proportion of thermal power generation, such as Southeast Asia.
Meanwhile, BHI is also developing ammonia co-firing technology for pulverized coal (PC) boilers in addition to CFBC. Last year, it succeeded in 30% co-firing, and is aiming for replacement and verification testing of 36 start-up burners at the Dangjin Power Plant.
The company plans to use this demonstration as an opportunity to secure ammonia-based carbon-neutral technology in both CFBC and PC boiler fields, and focus on preempting related markets and strengthening technological competitiveness.
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