The Anonymous Widower

Sale To Linde Of World’s Largest PEM Electrolyser

The title of this post, is the same as that of this press release on the ITM Power web site.

This is the first paragraph.

ITM Power, the energy storage and clean fuel company, is pleased to announce the sale to Linde of a 24MW electrolyser to be installed at the Leuna Chemical Complex in Germany.

Note.

1. Leuna is a few miles to the West of Leipzig.
2. As it’s green hydrogen, I would hope it’s not powered with electricity from coal.

I bet they’re pleased.

I said a similar thing, when they got funding for an 8 MW monster, that I wrote about in Funding Award to Supply An 8MW Electrolyser.

The press release says this about the electrolyser.

This new 24 megawatt electrolyzer will produce green hydrogen to supply Linde’s industrial customers through the company’s existing pipeline network. In addition, Linde will distribute liquefied green hydrogen to refueling stations and other industrial customers in the region. The total green hydrogen being produced can fuel approximately six hundred fuel cell buses driving 40 million kilometers and saving up to 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide tailpipe emissions per year.

In Can The UK Have A Capacity To Create Five GW Of Green Hydrogen?, I said the following.

Ryze Hydrogen are building the Herne Bay electrolyser.

• It will consume 23 MW of solar and wind power.
• It will produce ten tonnes of hydrogen per day.

The electrolyser will consume 552 MWh to produce ten tonnes of hydrogen, so creating one tonne of hydrogen needs 55.2 MWh of electricity.

This would mean that the Leuna electrolyser could be producing nearly four thousand tonnes of hydrogen per year.

Does this mean that every tonne of hydrogen saves ten tonnes of carbon dioxide tailpipe emissions?

February 17, 2021 - Posted by AnonW | Hydrogen | Green Hydrogen, iTM Power, Linde Group/BOC