The European Union set ambitious targets in its fight against climate change. It wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. It also requires Member States to exploit at least 40% of renewable resources and increase energy efficiency by 32.5%. With this mission, the new Hydrohelix hydrogen wall-hung boiler developed by Ferroli can heat without carbon emissions thanks to the use of renewable hydrogen as energy vector, facilitating the fulfillment of these goals and marking them a reality.
Ferroli has long been investing in the development of systems for domestic comfort with low levels of pollutants and low emissions to the environment. Its entire range of residential condensing wall-hung boilers are prepared to run with natural gas/renewable hydrogen mixtures in percentage up to 80%/20%. The goal is to offer the market a new wall-hung boiler that runs 100% on green hydrogen.
Ferroli R&D working group and Energy Technology group of the University of Vigo Hydrohelix
The Hydrohelix hydrogen wall-hung boiler has been developed and exhaustively tested at the Ferroli Group’s Research and Development center in Italy and is capable of comprehensively meeting all the simulations of performance requirements required in a real environment. It has a capacity of 24kW in heating and 28kW in production of hot water, maintaining the same shape and size as a conventional natural gas wall-hung boiler.
The next phase will be to verify the durability and reliability over time of some strategic components directly involved in green hydrogen combustion, marking the difference between Hydrohelix and another conventional wall-hung boiler. For this step, the Ferroli Group has initiated a collaborative project with researchers from the Center for Research in Technologies, Energy and Industrial Processes (CINTECX) of the University of Vigo in Spain, led by Jacopo Porteiro and David Patiño.
The partnership will carry out a series of stress tests with the aim of reconfirming the high degree of reliability and safety of Hydrohelix, already highlighted by tests carried out in the Ferroli R&D’s laboratories in Italy.
