Distillery to install DCC hydrogen boiler to produce green spirits
A Scottish distillery is set to install hydrogen combustion technology as it moves away from fuel oil to heat its stills.
Bruichladdich Distillery and its partners have received £2.65m from the Green Distilleries Competition, funded through the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, and follows an initial feasibility study completed in the spring of 2021.
“The key take away was a review of the number of various options to decarbonise the distillery and achieved zero emissions,” said Chris Jackson, CEO of energy partner Protium. “These demonstrated that hydrogen was the optimal solution for this case and could deliver long term cost benefits versus business as usual.”
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Bruichladdich Distillery aims to decarbonise its distillation process by 2025. Key to this target is the installation of an on‐site Dynamic Combustion Chamber (DCC), a hydrogen boiler patented by Jericho Energy Ventures’ subsidiary Hydrogen Technologies LLC and licenced to Protium’s subsidiary, Deuterium.
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