RE: Porsgrunn worlds largest Green Ammonia Hydrogen18 Nov 2021 15:16
NEL HYDROGEN & YARA INTERNATIONAL should be installed ie electrolyser produced by early to mid 2022 fitted by year end.
"We’re excited to formally launch the partnership with Nel and work towards developing green ammonia and low carbon fertilizer. Yara’s mission is to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet. We have already removed about half of our direct GHG emissions in the past few decades, and we’re working towards carbon neutrality by 2050. Producing fertilizer with carbon free hydrogen will be a very important step towards that goal”, says Tove Andersen, EVP Production in Yara.
Initially, a team of Yara experts pondered how they could produce fertilizer using only air, water, sun, wind and rocks. The answer would have to be a sustainable, energy effective and commercially viable solution. Interestingly, the way forward was found by looking back into Yara’s history.
The electrolyzer, nearly a century old technology that was made uncompetitive by the low cost of fossil energy, would be brought back into play. An electrolyzer produces hydrogen from water using electricity and Nel is developing their next generation electrolyzer where the prototype will be tested at Porsgrunn. The capacity of the electrolyzer will be 5 MW corresponding to 1% of the hydrogen production in Porsgrunn. It is expected to be installed in 2022.
“We are very pleased with the partnership with Nel. Our ammonia plant will make the first small step towards carbon free fertilizer production. When further developed, Yara Porsgrunn will be in a unique position also due to the low carbon footprint from our nitric acid plants”, says Jon Sletten, Plant manager in Porsgrunn.
This agreement is part of the project portfolio that BU Decarbonize is working on, alongside the Engie project. The goal is to ensure Yara will be the market shaper for green ammonia and low carbon fertilizer production. "
https://www.yara.com/news-and-media/news/archive/2019/yara-and-nel-carbon-free-hydrogen-for-fertilizer-production/
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