Honeywell Hydrogen Lunch & Learn

Otto Simon • April 4, 2023

Otto Simon's Process & Commissioning Engineer, Adam Draup, was recently invited to attend Honeywell’s Hydrogen Innovation Day at the Honeywell Thermal Solutions Factory in Vilvoorde, Belgium. Across two days in March 2023, Honeywell presented several hydrogen-based seminars as well as two burner demonstrations for engineers from industries across Europe. Adam was the only attendee from the UK and said it was a brilliant learning experience.


Following the Innovation Day, Honeywell Thermal Solutions was kind enough to offer to visit Otto Simon's offices in Cheadle and provide a one-to-one presentation for more of our engineers and project delivery team. Run as a Lunch & Learn session, Honeywell’s presentation focussed on current hydrogen developments in all things burner and burner train related, and provided an excellent opportunity for Q&A.


We also took the opportunity to discuss some current projects that both Honeywell and ourselves are working on, and how to manage fuel conversions from natural gas to hydrogen in a controlled and safe manner.


Otto Simon is always seeking to improve the knowledge and expertise of our engineers, and we were delighted for this opportunity to learn more about hydrogen burners and create a direct link with the suppliers to improve our project delivery for hydrogen fuel switching trials. 


You can learn more about Honeywell’s hydrogen solutions on their website.


Read more about Otto Simon’s work to develop Hydrogen Fuel Switching projects in the North West, UK:

Otto Simon and Honeywell engineers sit around a conference table, turned to face the camera with a 'hydrogen firing' presentation slide projected on the wall behind them.
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