Northern Oil - link for info2 Sep 2018 19:20
Another link to the 'Northern Oil' news. I have picked out a few of the paragraphs.
Refinery Hydrogen Power Pilot Takes Shape in Australia
07/18/2018
https://www.powermag.com/refinery-hydrogen-power-pilot-takes-shape-in-australia/
The company recently wrapped up a two-year pilot in Germany at an industrial plant owned by Air Products, which accepted hydrogen from Dow Chemicals. The project, POWER-UP, was a European Union–backed demonstration.
The new pilot, expected to be sized between 200 kW and 400 kW, will be located at Northern Oil’s Advanced Biofuels Refinery, near Gladstone, Australia. The refinery currently converts several waste streams, including from sugarcane bagasse, “green waste” from cities, woody weeds like prickly acacia, and tires as feedstock for the production of bio-crude oil. The renewable fuel is refined into saleable kerosene and diesel products, but it requires large volumes of industrial stable biohydrogen to support the refining process.
Northern Oil is developing a new hydrogen generation technology that uses steam over iron reduction and chemical looping to deliver hydrogen, processes that are reportedly cheaper than conventional steam methane reformation. Surplus hydrogen generated from this system is expected to be consumed by AFC’s fuel cell system.
According to Southern Oil CEO Tim Rose, the hydrogen-powered technology could help the renewable refinery generate its own power. “In developing the Gladstone Advanced Biofuels Pilot Plant over the last three years, Southern Oil has benchmarked cutting edge renewable technologies from around the world. In my mind, AFC Energy’s Alkaline Fuel Cell has great potential,” he said.
An estimated 100 GWe of hydrogen is vented to the atmosphere from industry each year, noted Adam Bond, AFC’s CEO. “The order received for the Company’s fuel cell system reflects the first stages of a growing pipeline of commercial fuel cell projects in country and validates the opportunities we believe to be emerging in the Australian hydrogen market.”