HYDROGEN
Colours
of Ostrava 2023
in the Spirit
of Hydrogen!
The Colours of Ostrava festival has
traditionally been a part of the Ostrava
and the Moravian-Silesian cultural scene,
whose four-day culmination attracts visitors
from all corners of the country and abroad.
Modern festival scenes of the 21st century,
which Colours of Ostrava undoubtedly
belongs to, cannot do without involving
the corresponding modern trends of
the circular economy, social responsibility
and technology. With a bit of exaggeration,
one could say, "Why not hydrogen?"
entrance, powered the busy merchandising
zone and fully covered its consumption.
"The
generators
worked
dutifully
throughout the festival and consumed
virtually the entire supply of hydrogen
bundles supplied by local company
Vítkovice, Inc." notes Daniel Minařík,
Chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Moravian-Silesian Hydrogen Cluster,
who was a helpful festival guide for this
year's hydrogen installation. Leaving
the smallest possible carbon footprint was
the main idea behind the "greening" of
the festival, which is why we insisted that
the hydrogen would be locally produced.
For next year, however, the Cluster would
like to be even more ambitious and
power the entire main concert stage with
hydrogen. "My colleagues from DEVINN
and I are now working out the technical
capacity, and we already know it can be
done! Our installation basically ran on
minimum and we tested that we can do
it in the field conditions of the festival,
so why not power the whole stage.
Maybe in time we'll get to the point
where Colours is completely hydrogenpowered and emission-free!" adds Daniel
Minařík. The last hurdles are basically
just the fire regulations for handling
the hydrogen bundles themselves. During
the installation, both the silent operation
of the two independent generators,
their high performance and the remote
supervision of the monitoring of functions
and performance were verified. The H2
Base consumption is 1.5 kilograms of
hydrogen at a power output of 25 kW.
Text: redakce
Foto: DEVINN
One of the festival's traditional longstanding partners, the Moravian-Silesian
Region, has taken on this question with all
their energy. Together with the MoravianSilesian Hydrogen Cluster, they contributed
to the rich programme, not only with
a moderated discussion on hydrogen in the
popular Meltingpot forum with the fitting
festival name "Colours and Voices of
Hydrogen", but also with the direct
implementation of hydrogen technology.
For four days and nights, a hydrogen
generator "H2 Base" from the development
company DEVINN, which is part of
the hydrogen cluster, was installed in
the festival area. Two mobile fuel cell
generators, located right at the main
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