Shell Starts Up Europe’s Largest PEM Green Hydrogen Electrolyser
The title of this post, is the same as that of this press release from Refhyne.
These are the first three paragraphs.
Europe’s largest PEM hydrogen electrolyser*, today began operations at Shell’s Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland, producing green hydrogen.
As part of the Refhyne European consortium and with European Commission funding through the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), the fully operational plant is the first to use this technology at such a large scale in a refinery.
Plans are under way to expand capacity of the electrolyser from 10 megawatts to 100 megawatts at the Rheinland site, near Cologne, where Shell also intends to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using renewable power and biomass in the future. A plant for liquefied renewable natural gas (bio-LNG) is also in development.
It certainly seems a comprehensive green development.
- It will be based on a massive 100 MW electrolyser.
- I estimate that the electrolyser will produce just under 45 tonnes of hydrogen per day.
As ITM Power is part of the Refhyne consortium, the electrolyser is being built in their factory in Sheffield.
This paragraph quotes Shell’s Downstream Director, Huibert Vigeveno .
“Shell wants to become a leading supplier of green hydrogen for industrial and transport customers in Germany,” he added. “We will be involved in the whole process — from power generation, using offshore wind, to hydrogen production and distribution across sectors. We want to be the partner of choice for our customers as we help them decarbonise.”
Shell certainly have green ambitions.
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