(Seoul = Yeonhap News) Journalist 옥철 = Hanwha Group Defence Industry Hanwha Techwin[012450] works with SNU to develop a new age energy technology.<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Hanwha Techwin (representative of aerospace and defence Hyeon Woo Shin) and SNU set up a gas turbine and power system research center, and have decided to work together in development of a efficient new age energy technology, mentioned by Hanwha Techwin on the 25^th.

The shared research center, after COP21, plans to develop new clean energy technologies through prototypes such as a supercritical sCO2 engine and gas turbine engines.

Gas turbine engines compress air through the use of high speed compressors to turn it into a high temperature gas with temperatures reaching 1600 degrees Celcius, expanding the gas into a turbine to produce movement and thus energy.

Only a small number of firms such as the Amerian GE, German Siemens, Japanese MHPS possess the core technology.

The sCO2 engine uses the properties of CO2 in its critical state (achieved through temperatures and pressures lower than the standard atmospheric pressure and temperature) to generate electricity. This technology can directly use various heat sources such as solar, geothermal, waste heat, etc, hence a competition between commercialization of this technology exist between first world nations today.

The research lab’s work force includes SNU’s turbo machine lab (known for its competence in the Hydrodynamics sector), Intelligent aeroelasticity and helicopter research together with Yonsei’s turbo machine lab and others

Hanwha Techwin is also working with the Southwest Research Institution in America, participating in the SunShot program which pushes the new age solar energy system, currently being pushed forward by the Department of Energy in America.

 

Hanwha Techwin (Aerospace and defense representative Hyeon Woo Shin right), and SNU (Professor Seung Jin Song Head of the research center left) established the Hanwha-SNU gas turbine and power system research center on the 34th and aims to push the gas turbine and power system products to world class standards.