OMV AG has laid the inspiration stone for a 140-megawatt (MW) electrolyzer to provide as much as 23,000 metric tons a yr of hydrogen in Bruck an der Leitha, Decrease Austria.
Anticipated to start out manufacturing 2027, it will likely be the largest renewable hydrogen plant in Austria and Southeastern Europe and among the many prime 5 throughout the continent, Austria’s state-backed OMV stated in a press release on its web site. The plant’s electrolytic course of to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen will use wind, photo voltaic and hydro energy.
The plant will partly gas OMV’s Schwechat refinery to chop carbon emissions by as much as 150,000 metric tons every year (MMtpa), round 10 p.c of the refinery’s production-related emissions, OMV stated.
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The hydrogen facility and the refinery, which has a crude oil processing capability of 9.6 MMtpa, will likely be linked by way of a 22-kilometer (13.67-mile) pipeline.
“OMV is investing a sum within the mid-hundreds of hundreds of thousands of euros within the plant”, the corporate stated.
It stated it’s finalizing a funding settlement with the European Hydrogen Financial institution.
“We’re creating an built-in ecosystem based mostly on the usage of inexperienced hydrogen – supported by technological innovation, trendy infrastructure, political help and robust partnerships”, stated chair and chief government Alfred Stern. “Inexperienced hydrogen is a key part of our Technique 2030 as a method of decarbonizing our gas manufacturing and a key to OMV’s accountable transformation”.
OMV awarded Germany’s Siemens Power AG the engineering, procurement and building contract, together with the availability of the plant’s electrolysis expertise. OMV contracted Vienna-ased STRABAG AG for the civil building work.
On April 30 OMV introduced the beginning of manufacturing at its first commercial-scale inexperienced hydrogen facility, constructed with a capability of 1,500 MMtpa on the Schwechat refinery. The plant makes use of a 10-MW PEM (polymer electrolyte membrane) electrolyzer powered by hydro, photo voltaic and wind vitality.
The method avoids as much as 15,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions a yr, equal to the CO2 consumption of two,000 individuals per yr based mostly on a European Union common, in response to OMV.
Output from the hydrogen plant will likely be used to decarbonize the refinery and produce extra sustainable fuels and chemical compounds together with sustainable aviation gas and renewable diesel, OMV stated.
Additionally on April 30 OMV and Abu Dhabi Future Power Co PJSC (Masdar) stated that they had signed a letter of intent to collaborate on producing inexperienced hydrogen and derivatives.
The partnership would contain producing artificial aviation gas and different artificial fuels, in addition to artificial chemical compounds, in Austria, the United Arab Emirates and northern and central Europe.
“By leveraging our mixed capabilities, Masdar and OMV wish to produce inexperienced hydrogen and derivatives at industrial scale, supporting decarbonization efforts and constructing the inexperienced hydrogen worth chain”, Masdar chief inexperienced hydrogen officer Mohammad Abdelqader El Ramahi stated.
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