Plans for green ammonia plants in Denmark and Norway
Type of post: NEWS.
Plans have been announced for green ammonia production in Norway and Denmark. Ammonia’s chemical properties make it ideally suited for the coming hydrogen economy.
Press release (Yara): “Yara ready to enable the hydrogen economy with historic full-scale green ammonia project”, 07/12/2020.
Press release (Haldor Topsoe): “Danish partnership sets out to build world’s first commercial scale green ammonia plant”, 09/12/2020.
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- “Iberdrola and Fertiberia launch renewable hydrogen project for green ammonia generation”, 08/08/2020.
Figure 1. Plans have been announced for green ammonia production in Norway and Denmark (taken from Haldor Topsoe press release)
Denmark
- Companies: Skovgaard Invest, Vestas and Haldor Topsoe. The partnership will jointly invest in the project and has applied for public co-funding.
- Location: Western Jutland.
- Production capacity: 5 ktons/year.
- CO2 emissions reduction: 8,200 tons of CO2 per year.
- Technology: 12 MW existing V80-2.0 MW Vestas wind turbines and 50 MW new solar panels will power an electrolyzer unit that will produce hydrogen which will subsequently be processed into ammonia. Haldor Topsoe will design the plant’s fully dynamic ammonia technology to secure optimal production and adapt to the inherent fluctuations in power output from wind turbines and solar panels. In addition, the renewable energy generation will be connected directly to the national grid so surplus power can be sold to the grid. The project has been specifically designed to provide the necessary know-how and operational experience in order to upscale the dynamic ammonia plant in new projects.
- Start-up: 2022.
Norway
- Company: Yara.
- Location: Porsgrunn (electrification of Yara’s existing ammonia plant).
- Production capacity: 500 ktons/year.
- CO2 emissions reduction: 800,000 tons of CO2 per year. Yara aims to fully remove CO2 emissions from its Porsgrunn ammonia production and thereby produce emission-free fuel for shipping, carbon-free fertilizer and ammonia for industrial applications.
- Start-up: The project could be operational in 2026.
