{"id":174088,"date":"2024-07-24T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/hydrogen-powered-apartments\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:05:10","slug":"hydrogen-powered-apartments","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/hydrogen-powered-apartments\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea inaugurates first hydrogen fuel cell-powered apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first apartment block powered by hydrogen<\/strong> through stored fuel cells has opened in Ulsan, South Korea.\nThe Yuldong-With-U complex has 437 homes, which get 100% of their heating and electricity from this clean and efficient energy source. <\/p>\n\n

The first hydrogen-powered apartment block<\/h2>\n\n

The project has been operating successfully for a month<\/strong>, and city authorities are assessing the costs of hydrogen-generated heat and electricity.\nIn June, the Yuldong-With-U complex <\/strong>produced 840 MWh of power, which would have cost 150 million won (approximately $108,286) if conventional utilities had been used.\nThis method has proven to be highly cost-effective. <\/p>\n\n

Power for these apartments comes from the Yuldong cogeneration plant<\/strong>, located just 200 meters from the complex.\nThis plant uses hydrogen as a by-product, which is transported through a 10 km pipeline from nearby industries. <\/p>\n\n

On the rooftop of the complex are three container-sized fuel cells with the capacity to generate 1.31 megawatts of electricity from 51 kg of hydrogen per hour.\nThis is enough to power four-person households for a month every hour. <\/p>\n\n

In addition to electricity, the process generates heat, which is captured and stored in a thermal storage tank with a capacity of 40 tons.\nThe heated water reaches temperatures of up to 70 \u00b0C and is sent directly to the homes for heating, ensuring efficient use of all the energy produced. <\/p>\n\n

How do fuel cells work?<\/h2>\n\n

The fuel cells<\/a><\/strong> have multiple advantages over traditional combustion technologies used in many power plants and vehicles.\nAccording to the U.S. Department of Energy<\/strong>, fuel cells can operate more efficiently than combustion engines and convert chemical energy from fuel directly into electrical energy with efficiencies of more than 60%.\nIn addition, they operate similarly to batteries, but without running down or needing to be recharged, as long as they are supplied with fuel. <\/p>\n\n

An Ulsan city official reported that amendments to the country’s Electricity Business Law are being considered to allow residents to directly access electricity at a more cost-effective cost.\nHowever, at present, due to regulations, hydrogen-generated electricity is sold to Korea Electric Power Corporation. <\/p>\n\n

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Photo: Yuldong-With-U\/ Yuldong National Rental Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yuldong-With-U complex has the capacity to produce 840 MWh of power while generating heat, which is intelligently stored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8404,"featured_media":174045,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13044],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-174088","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-new-energies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/174088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/174088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=174088"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=174088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}