TELKI represents the first infrastructure of a Vocational Education and Training centre to produce Green Hydrogen from renewable energies.
Thanks to this complex, future professionals in renewable energies can delve into an emerging technology that aims for the efficient and effective production of sustainable fuels.
The facility combines the necessary technology and installations to obtain pure hydrogen from water, using the photovoltaic and wind equipment of the centre as the energy source for this process.
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Green hydrogen will be generated using a 1 kW electrolyzer powered by a 5 kWp vertical-axis wind turbine, a 4.4 kWp two-axis solar tracker photovoltaic installation, and a 15 kWp photovoltaic solar canopy with three 22 kW electric vehicle charging points.
The production capacity of this gas is 1200 ml/minute.
What is green hydrogen?
Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical element in the universe and represents a clean and inexhaustible energy source that only emits water vapor as a fuel.
However, hydrogen never appears alone in nature but is always associated with other elements. The energy used for the separation of hydrogen from other elements determines whether it is a sustainable fuel or not.
Green Hydrogen is obtained when hydrogen is separated from other elements using renewable energy sources (wind, solar, or hydro) with zero CO2 emissions.
The process of obtaining Green Hydrogen is done through water electrolysis. By applying a continuous electric current (derived from renewable energy) to water through electrodes, the water molecule (H2O) is decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen, resulting in what is known as Green Hydrogen.
Other methods of hydrogen production include:
- Pink Hydrogen: Extraction of hydrogen through water electrolysis powered by nuclear energy.
- Blue Hydrogen: Extraction of hydrogen from fossil sources, especially natural gas. This process releases a large amount of CO2 which is captured.
- Gray Hydrogen: Extraction of hydrogen from fossil sources. It follows the same process as Blue Hydrogen, but CO2 is not captured.
TELKI, a key piece for the VET ecosystem
The production process of Green Hydrogen is substantially more expensive than processes supported by fossil fuels. Research and technological development in this field are essential to optimize and make profitable an energy source that is crucial for a more sustainable and planet-friendly future.
TELKI is a distinctive infrastructure in the training of energy specialists. It allows them to academically coexist with a pioneering and future-oriented technology that is currently in the midst of development. Not surprisingly, major energy companies and research centres are focusing their attention on this fuel.
TELKI, a space for…
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Education
Providing advanced tools and infrastructure to our Renewable Energy students and vocational and higher education cycles with training modules where energy comes into play: Electrotechnical and automated systems, Telecommunications and computer systems, Analysis and quality control laboratory, Energy efficiency and solar thermal energy, Development of thermal and fluid installations projects, Electrical and automatic installations, Telecommunications installations.
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Collaboration
Sharing knowledge and infrastructure that contribute to improving the skills of students and teachers from other training centres (professional and university) and developing joint projects related to H2 at the local, national, and international levels.
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Research
Participating in applied research projects and technological development.
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Inspiring vocations
The TELKI plant is an excellent vehicle for ESO and Baccalaureate students to firsthand experience a sector and a technology unknown to the general public, thus presenting them with a new scenario in which they can envision their professional future.
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Energy self-consumption
CIFP San Jorge: always a little further, also with renewables
TELKI – Green Hydrogen Lab is a logical consequence of CIFP San Jorge’s determination to turn the centre into an integral training space in which knowledge and infrastructures not only respond to the reality of the productive needs of our business fabric, but also to new technological innovations.
In the field of renewable energies our centre has:
Photovoltaic plant
Photovoltaic plant, with 10 bifacial modules of 440Wp of peak power, three-phase inverter of 4kW of power and lithium battery of 5kWh capacity.
Photovoltaic canopy
15 kW solar photovoltaic canopy with 3 x 22 kW charging points for electric vehicles.
Wind turbine
Vertical axis wind turbine suitable for installation in residential environments with low noise level, with bird protection and a 5kW wind inverter.
Renewable energies, technologies of the future with a woman’s voice.
Mária Telkes, first solar heating system.
We wanted to highlight the importance of women in the field of renewable energy research by naming our Green Hydrogen complex after a key figure in this field: Mária Telkes, scientist and inventor.
But she is not the only one. María Retuerto, CSIC researcher, and Ana Martínez y Dolores Hernández (Repsol Technology Lab) are renowned scientists who are currently leading projects related to Green Hydrogen.
Latest news
February 24, 2023
Green Hydrogen, the new fuel in the training of renewable energy specialists in the Basque VET system.
Green Hydrogen, the new fuel in the training of renewable energy specialists in Basque vocational training.
February 16, 2023
The first Green Hydrogen infrastructure of the Basque VET is inaugurated with the participation of the CSIC research professor Sergio Rojas.
On 22nd February the San Jorge Integrated Vocational Training Centre will bring together specialists in the production of Green Hydrogen in Santurce to inaugurate TELKI
Other media that have reported on Telki
- The first Green Hydrogen infrastructure of the Basque VET is inaugurated with the participation of the CSIC research professor Sergio Rojas
(The business world) - Santurtzi will inaugurate this Wednesday the first infrastructure of a VET centre to produce Green Hydrogen
(Europapress) - What is green hydrogen?
(Eitb / La mecánica del caracol)
- Jokin Bildarratz inaugurates the first green hydrogen infrastructure in Basque vocational training
(euskadi.eus) - The San Jorge centre inaugurates the first green hydrogen infrastructure in VET
(Business strategy) - Bizkaia’s vocational training students will be the first in Spain to be trained in green hydrogen production
(El correo) - Vinci generates hydrogen for self-consumption with photovoltaic and wind power in a vocational training centre
(PV Magazine)