The project has been developed by the Ammogen Consortium, a multi-disciplinary and multi-national team dedicated to driving forward hydrogen fuel supply chains in the UK and worldwide.
On Wednesday 17 May, consortium partners gathered at Tyseley Energy Park (TEP) to mark the construction milestone for the facility which, once commissioned, is expected to deliver 200kg per day of transport-grade hydrogen to the hydrogen refuelling station at TEP.
Funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), the £6.7m project is expected to be the world’s largest and most efficient ammonia to hydrogen conversion unit of its kind, Ammogen said.
The facility will use technology developed by H2SITE that derives hydrogen from ammonia through cracking, a process that uses a high temperature furnace to separate ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen, after which the hydrogen is filtered and purified for use as fuel.
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Alex Goody, chief executive of consortium lead Gemserv said: “Hydrogen is a crucial energy vector in the mission to net zero, and a major market challenge in the ability to transport hydrogen to where it's needed. Ammonia could be that carrier to unlock green hydrogen and production globally.”
Project partners Gemserv, Equans, H2Site, Tyseley Energy Park, Yara and Birmingham University estimate that over 97,000 jobs and £16bn GVA could be delivered in the UK through early investment in cracking technologies that enable the use of ammonia as a hydrogen carrier.
The consortium is actively pursuing opportunities for investment to roll out further sites in the UK.
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