Ammonia Cracker24 Nov 2022 18:54
Great news on HS2 Deployment this week. AFC seem to have their strategy just right. I saw all the discussion on Geopura and thought this was worth posting. Would like to think AFC are ahead of the game with the ammonia cracker. Am going off memory though.
Siemens Energy, Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), and GeoPura have begun work on a £3.5m ($4.17m) ammonia cracker prototype to produce green hydrogen at industrial scale in Newcastle, UK.
The consortium has said the system will be designed to deliver high-purity hydrogen, suitable for PEM fuel cell use, using FFI’s Metal Membrane Technology (MMT) purification process, which selectively filters hydrogen whilst blocking other gases.
With ammonia offering a high density, readily transportation and storage option for hydrogen, it is hoped the cracker and MMT, if successful will allow green hydrogen to be recovered without releasing carbon emissions, to be used for mobility and off-grid power applications.
GeoPura is set to use the hydrogen produced from the project to supply its off-grid Hydrogen Power Units (HPUs), to provide zero-emission power. This month (November 2022), the company announced its 250kW HPU powered a three-month maintenance outage at a Uniper natural gas plant in the UK.