Decarbonisation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will provide carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology for the Hydrogen Production Plant 2 (HPP2) at the UK’s Stanlow Manufacturing Complex.

The plans have been solidified with a concluded license agreement between MHI and Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), which is providing hydrogen production process technology and the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the project.

Under terms of the agreement, MHI will license its Advanced KM CDR Process™, a CO2 capture technology jointly developed with Kansai Electric Power. MHI will also provide the process design package for the new post-combustion CO2 capture plant.

The technology provided will support the project in becoming what is believed to be the UK’s largest-scale low-carbon hydrogen plant when it begins operation. HPP2 will have an annual hydrogen production capacity of nearly 230,000 tonnes.

HPP2 is a key pillar of the HyNet carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) cluster. The captured CO2 will be permanently sequestered into depleted gas fields under the sea in Liverpool Bay.

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The UK Government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has selected two initial clusters – HyNet (where EET Hydrogen is leading the critical hydrogen production projects) and East Coast.

HPP2 augments the Hydrogen Production Plant 1 (HPP1) scheduled for construction as part of the large-scale low carbon hydrogen plant infrastructure planned by EET Hydrogen in the HyNet cluster.

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