Lhyfe will use data from its offshore hydrogen production pilot Sealhyfe in future projects after hailing its successful trial.
After 14 months of testing, Lhyfe reviewed the results of the Sealhyfe project after it returned to dock in November 2023, and found that it had met its initial objectives.
The equipment was brought back with its full production capacity intact and insights that Lhyfe will use to inform its other onshore and offshore projects.
The Sealhyfe project is equipped with a 1MW electrolyser supplied by Plug and aimed to demonstrate that feasibility of producing hydrogen offshore from renewable energy sources.
Its objectives were to demonstrate Lhyfe’s ability to operate an industrial-scale production unit in an isolated environment.
In addition, it aimed to prove the reliability of the electrolysis technology in harsh environmental conditions that are representative of the operating conditions of its future large-scale offshore sites and provide a database of operating data that can be used to optimise and make production processes more reliable, and to test the technologies employed with a view to scaling them up to sites with ten times and then 100 times greater capacity.
A range of measurement and data collection instruments were installed on board Sealhyfe to ensure precise management and control of all the production unit’s parameters from September 2022 to November 2023, first at the quayside and then at sea.