SOLVING THE GREEN TRANSITION CHALLENGES WITH A UNIQUE INNOVATION

Company aims to help decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors and contribute to development of hydrogen economy by making technology available to the global market.

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Finnish company Finno Energy is aiming to take another step forward in commercializing its gas turbines technology after proving its functionality through a successful testing phase which concluded this spring.

With the help of Shell Gamechanger, Finno Exergy's team has validated their proof of concept and will now advance its research & development work toward commercial utilization.

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"Finno Exergy has developed a solution that has shown potential to cut gas turbines’ CO2 emissions by up to 20%. In addition, our pressure gain combustion system works with any mixture of natural gas and hydrogen. This feature has potential to enable the direct utilization of hydrogen in the sectors where emissions are hard to abate, like heat and power generation in industrial applications, and dispatchable electricity generation.

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For end users, like a manufacturing plant, our solution could deliver substantial cost savings and emissions reduction by improving the efficiency of energy production," says Mr. Timo Erämaa, Founder and CEO of Finno Exergy.

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The essence of the innovation is a more efficient combustion system for gas turbines applications. Gas turbines are widely applied across many sectors and industries.

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As the innovation is fuel-agnostic, meaning it can use any type of fuel, including hydrogen, it has potential to accelerate the transition to lower-carbon options like lower carbon hydrogen.

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"We have been developing and piloting our solution in cooperation with Shell GameChanger since we won the New Energy Challenge competition in 2020 and our unique innovation is now protected by 10 patent families in Europe, the United States, China and Japan, ” says Mr. Fabio Ciccateri, Chief Technology Officer at Finno Exergy.

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Finno Exergy's goal is to start the first customer projects at the end of 2023 and to achieve a turnover of more than EUR 130 million through license sales in 2027. Commercial negotiations with potential customers, including gas turbine manufacturers worldwide, are already underway. Finno Exergy is starting a new project, in collaboration with academic and industrial partners, focused on the design and test of a retrofitting package for a selected industrial gas turbine, to be used as a technology demonstrator. Shell GameChanger will continue to monitor Finno Exergy’s technology development for awareness about the progression and maturation of this technology.

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For further information, please contact:

Timo Erämaa, CEO, tel. +358 500 414 225 (Finnish)

Fabio Ciccateri, CTO, tel. +39 3515 185 012 (English)

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Our test rig is operating at our test lab in Helsinki. We managed to burn hydrogen and methane separately and together. More test results will be published in December.

We have recruited senior designer James, senior test engineer Osmo and junior test engineer Jenni to our team together with gas specialist Kari and test engineer Pertti. We also start scientific project at Florence University by Clarissa.

Our seed round is ongoing and if you are interested to join in, please contact our CEO Timo.

The project started after the victory of the "New Energy Challenge 2020" and ended in October 2021. During these months we installed on our prototype an additional power turbine and new measurement equipment. This upgrade enabled us to calculate the thermal efficiency of the system and to compare it with an equivalent ideal traditional gas turbine.

The experimental results showed the potential of efficiency improvement of up to 40% for small gas turbines applications, in line with our forecast.

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We are starting next phase technology and research project at the Energy transition Campus Amsterdam from 1st of September.

Heikki J Salminen, Technical Advisor & Co-Founder of Finno Exergy Oy Ltd. was invited to a 2021 AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forums Technical Panel session, among top-rank panelists from the field of pressure gain combustion and gas turbine research. The panel titled “PGC-12: Pressure Gain Combustion is not just Rotating Detonation Engines!” is scheduled for Wednesday, 11 August 12:00 - 13:15 ET (UTC-4), 2021.

First phase of the Shell GameChanger program has been started and the whole team is working hard to make this project a success.

The team is also preparing to give a presentation in the upcoming ETN Virtual Annual General Meeting & Workshop Week 2021.

Our CFD Specialist Fabio Ciccateri will be presenting a topic “Novel pressure gain combustion technology for low carbon GT operation: technology description and experimental result” in session TC1: Low carbon GT technologies. Please check the full schedule by clicking here.

Check out the article from Talouselämää about the Finno Exergy victory in the New Energy Challenge 2020. 
 

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Finno Exergy claims the win in the New Energy Challenge 2020. 

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For the past three weeks we have working towards the finals pitch and the project proposal with Shell. Finals day will be November 19th and live broadcast will start 15:00 CET. The online event is open for everybody. Click for registration to the final broadcast.