Government pours funding into sustainable gin distillery

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The world’s first hydrogen-fuelled distillery could be developed at The Orkney Distillery as part of government plans to decarbonise energy-intensive industries.

The HySpirits project has been awarded £148,600 by the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to conduct the study.

The project will investigate the development of a thermal fluid heater system to operate with hydrogen as the combustion fuel within the distilling process. This system will remove the need to use fossil fuels such as kerosene and liquid petroleum gas.

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HySpirits brings together Edinburgh Napier, project lead the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), which uses wind and tidal technology to produce hydrogen, and Orkney Distilling Ltd. The university will assess the distillery site and develop the hydrogen system design and specification.

HySpirits was awarded funding after taking part in the Industrial Fuel Switching Competition run by BEIS earlier this year, which aims to stimulate early investment in fuel switching processes and technologies.

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