■ Doosan Fuel Cell and SK Energy entered a business agreement to promote the “joint development and industrialization of technologies to utilize rechargeable hydrogen fuel cells” and held the 1st Technical Exchange Meeting

– Promoted cooperation on expanding “distributed generation and on-site hydrogen recharge base” using Tri-gen cells capable of generating electricity, heat, and hydrogen simultaneously.

– Both introduced their fuel cell/high-purity hydrogen refining technologies, concretized milestones and objectives for industrialization, and demonstrated the performance of the Tri-gen cells at the meeting.

■ SK Energy decided to establish comprehensive eco-friendly energy stations, where power generation and recharge of hydrogen/electricity are available at the same time.

– Will start building the first comprehensive eco-friendly energy station with their “own technologies” as soon as next year.

■ Oh Jong-hoon, President of P&M CIC, SK Energy: “We’ll accelerate promoting eco-friendly energy business to achieve Net Zero before 2050”

SK and Doosan have announced their decision to cooperate for the vitalization of the hydrogen industry and transition to eco-friendly energy.

SK Energy, the oil business subsidiary of SK Innovation, announced that they will cooperate with Doosan Fuel Cell and start a joint development and industrialization of technologies to utilize hydrogen recharging fuel cells. To do this, they plan to use the fuel cell business competence and hydrogen refining technologies/infrastructure each company possesses.

SK Energy entered a business agreement with Doosan Fuel Cell regarding “joint development and industrialization of technologies to utilize rechargeable hydrogen fuel cells” at SK Building in Jongno, Seoul, Korea on August 27^th.

With this agreement, the two companies decided to enhance their cooperation in expanding eco-friendly distributed generation and hydrogen recharging base under the Korean government’s Green New Deal policy. To do so, they agreed to collaborate on developing rechargeable fuel cells (Tri-gen) and high-purity hydrogen production system’s optimal connection technology, and also on the mutual industrialization of distributed generation and expansion of on-site* hydrogen recharging base.

* Charging the hydrogen produced at the production facility.

Following the agreement, the two companies held the first Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) on October 27th at the Doosan Fuel Cell plant in Iksan, Korea to proceed with the joint technology development project. The event was attended by various representatives from both companies who are in charge of business development, research lab, and production plant.

At the TEM, the two companies shared their data on fuel cells and high-purity hydrogen refining technologies, and concretized milestones and objectives for industrialization. Also, they demonstrated the performance of Tri-gen cells at the Doosan Fuel Cell plant, emphasizing their intention and potential toward the success of the “joint development and industrialization of technologies to utilize rechargeable hydrogen fuel cells.”

Doosan Fuel Cell is a Korean fuel cell facility manufacturer that provides and operates more than 1,200 PAFCs (Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cells) for 440kW power generation domestically and internationally. Especially, their under development project Tri-gen is a hydrogen recharging fuel cell that can generate electricity, heat, and hydrogen in urban areas simultaneously. It means that the cell will realize eco-friendly urban comprehensive energy stations for distributed generation and recharging of electricity and hydrogen at the same place.

Doosan Fuel Cell takes charge of developing technologies to improve the Tri-gen fuel cell’s performance that can be used for hydrogen recharge and the production and delivery as well. SK Energy plans to design and develop the technology to refine the hydrogen generated by Tri-gen fuel cells to very high purity hydrogen (over 99.97%), so it can be input into hydrogen vehicles.

Also, SK Energy will set up and operate comprehensive eco-friendly energy stations that allow distributed generation and recharge of electricity and hydrogen at the same place using the jointly developed “full package of hydrogen recharging fuel cells (Tri-gen cells and high-purity hydrogen-producing system).” They will start to build their first comprehensive eco-friendly energy station made with their own technologies as soon as next year. This will help to promote the profitability of the existing hydrogen recharge stations that currently show a low profit and take a huge role in the expansion of the eco-friendly infrastructure supply in the future.

“We plan to expand building eco-friendly comprehensive energy stations through the joint development and industrialization of technologies to utilize hydrogen recharging fuel cells (Tri-gen),” said Oh Jong-hoon, President of SK Energy’s P&M (Platform & Marketing) CIC. He added, “We will accelerate promoting eco-friendly energy business to achieve Net Zero before 2050.”

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From left: Head of Doosan Fuel Cell’s Operation Divison Moon Hyung-won, Head of Doosan Fuel Cell’s Sales Division Lee Seung-jun, Head of SK Energy’s Solution & Platform Business Division Kang Dong-soo, SK Energy’s Energy Solution Manager Chang Ho-joon take a commemorative photo at the first Technology Exchange Meeting held at Doosan Fuel Cell plant in Iksan, Korea on October 27^th.