YARA y CF, líderes en producción de fertilizantes nitrogenados, inician sus primeros proyectos de amoniaco verde en escala comercial.
Dic 21 – CF Industries is constructing North America’s first commercial-scale green ammonia production capability at its Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana. Green ammonia is ammonia produced using hydrogen from carbon-free sources. The Company signs engineering and procurement contract with Thyssen Krupp for green ammonia project.
Jan 22 – Linde Engineering revealed it has signed an agreement with Yara for the construction and delivery of a 24 MW green hydrogen plant.
Together, Linde and Yara will demonstrate that ammonia produced using renewable energy can reduce the volume of carbon dioxide emitted in fertilizer production. The 24 MW plant will be based on PEM technology by ITM Power and will be built in Porsgrunn at Heroya Industry park in Norway. This will be the second 24 MW PEM electrolysis plant designed and constructed by Linde Engineering; the first is currently being built at the Leuna Chemical Complex in Germany.
The electrolyzer will have a capacity of around 10,000 kg/day of hydrogen. Water electrolysis will produce green hydrogen to partially replace the gray hydrogen in Yara’s ammonia plant, thereby removing 41,000 tpy of CO2 emissions annually. These emissions equate to the same amount emitted by roughly 16,000 passenger vehicles. The electrolyzer will produce enough hydrogen to create 20,500 tpy of ammonia which can be converted to between 60,000 and 80,000 t of green fertilizer.