May 2024 | With the help of a new electrolyzer and surplus electricity from its own PV systems with a capacity of over 400 kWp, WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH will supply the laboratories in Renningen with green hydrogen in future.
WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH, a specialist in energy-saving and low-emission industrial burner technology, has put the company’s own hydrogen electrolyzer into operation. Following the installation of the electrolyzer at the end of 2023, the storage and pipeline infrastructure is now also fully operational. The electrolyzer enables CO₂-neutral burner development.
Ready for the energy transition
For many years, WS-Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH from Renningen has been developing and selling highly efficient industrial burners with the label Green-Gas Ready and is thus setting standards in the field of hydrogen combustion for industrial applications.
Advances in the combustion of climate-neutral fuels from renewable energies are driving decarbonization and the achievement of climate neutrality in thermal process technology, which is required in a wide range of industries.
Commissioning of the hydrogen electrolyzer
An important step for the company has now been taken with the commissioning of the company’s own hydrogen electrolyzer. With the help of the already installed photovoltaic systems with a total output of over 400 kWp, green hydrogen can now be produced when the sun is shining and then used on site in burner development.
This is a good signal for the environment, particularly in view of the steadily increasing use of corresponding products in industry and the resulting constant rise in the number of tests in burner development. Thanks to the local production of green hydrogen, the otherwise necessary road transportation of the renewable fuel is also eliminated.
View of the modular electrolyzer (Image source: WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH)
Temporary storage of surplus PV electricity
When the sun shines, the electrolyzer modules fill an intermediate storage tank that can store enough hydrogen to supply the test operation for conventional industrial burners for an entire working day. In view of the increasing demand for hydrogen burners and the associated development and testing effort, a further increase in system pressure could even make it easy to multiply the storage options.
About WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH
WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH is a medium-sized, owner-operated company. Since the company’s foundation in 1982, WS specializes in energy-saving and low-emission industrial burner technology. With over 100,000 high-efficiency burners sold, WS customers collectively achieve estimated annual fuel savings of several thousand gigawatt hours, worth hundreds of millions of euros. This corresponds to a reduction of global CO2 emissions beyond one million tons per year.
