Second major blue hydrogen project reaches final investment decision in Rotterdam
Air Liquide will install carbon capture equipment to reduce emissions at an existing grey H2 facility
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Air Liquide plans to begin operations of its proprietary Cryocap carbon capture technology — which it had previously installed for its blue hydrogen project at Port Jerome in France — by 2026.
The existing Rotterdam hydrogen plant’s production capacity is around 130,000 cubic metres (11,685kg) per hour — just over 100,000 tonnes annually, presuming round-the-clock operation (a little under the 109,500 tonnes a year expected at Air Products’ facility).
All 37 million tonnes of storage capacity have already been contracted to four industrial emitters in Rotterdam that had signed joint development agreements: Air Products, Air Liquide, and oil majors Shell and ExxonMobil, although the latter two plan to use the network to capture emissions from other industrial activities.
These four companies were in 2021 awarded €2.1bn ($2.3bn) in grants via the Dutch government’s SDE++ scheme to help pay for the scheme.