Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2022

thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers recently signed a supply contract with Shell for the large-scale project Hydrogen Holland I in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Shell’s final investment decision to build the Holland Hydrogen I is expected in 2022, after which the intended start of production will be in 2024.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

World’s green hydrogen leaders unite to drive 50-fold scale-up in six years. The new “Green Hydrogen Catapult” initiative will see green hydrogen industry leaders target the deployment of 25 gigawatts through 2026 of renewables-based hydrogen production, with a view to halve the current cost of hydrogen to below US$2 per kilogram.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Saudi Aramco and Air Products signed an agreement to jointly-build the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle fueling station in Saudi Arabia. The hydrogen refueling station, the first in the Kingdom, is expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2019. Al Khowaiter, Chief Technology Officer of Saudi Aramco.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2020

Haldor Topsoe has joined a hydrogen and sustainable fuel project based on electrolysis in the Greater Copenhagen Area. The partnership consists of leading Danish companies covering the whole value chain for the production, distribution, and consumption of renewable hydrogen and sustainable fuels. —Roeland Baan, Topsoe’s CEO.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2021

In late November, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) announced the start of development of the vast Jafurah unconventional gas field, the largest non-associated gas field in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It will make Saudi Arabia one of the world’s largest natural gas producers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2023

The green hydrogen will power a new, fully integrated, digitalized and cycle-oriented steel plant in Boden, northern Sweden. Green steel products are already in exceptionally high demand from the automotive industry, which will thus be able to reduce its carbon footprint so decisively.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

The MOU provides a framework to accelerate expansion of a hydrogen ecosystem in the Korean and Saudi Arabian markets, and to explore the use of advanced non-metallic materials in various fields including the automotive industry. Additionally, the companies will cooperate on the development of future automotive technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. As the gases exit the catalyst-bed chamber, the molecules bind into a very high quality hydrogen-rich biosyngas free of tar, soot and heavy metals. This is game-changing technology. —Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Saudi Aramco and its affiliates signed 12 agreements with major South Korean companies to reinforce relationships with South Korea, expand international operations, and support the region’s energy security with the expansion of Arabian crude oil supply to Asian markets. Among these agreements is a partnership with Hyundai Motor on hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

Offshore) (CCC), to develop green hydrogen plants in the Middle East. CCC and Fusion Fuel have agreed to cooperate on projects involving the production of green hydrogen for potential clients in the refining and petrochemical industries in order to reduce their carbon footprint. Many more will follow.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Low-carbon eFuel is a drop-in synthetic fuel made by reacting CO 2 , captured either directly from the atmosphere or from an industrial facility, with renewable hydrogen. In Saudi Arabia, Aramco and ENOWA (Neom Energy and Water Company) are working to demonstrate the production of synthetic gasoline for light-duty passenger vehicles.

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MARCH 18, 2023

Saudi Arabia-based Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, and Linde Engineering, a global leader in the production and processing of gases, signed an agreement jointly to develop a new ammonia cracking technology. —Savas et al. Resources Salvador Sayas, Natalia Morlanés, Sai P.

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MARCH 19, 2021

In the first stage of the project, the proposed facility will use Haldor Topsoe’s proprietary solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC) ( earlier post ) to produce green hydrogen from 100 MW of renewable electricity. The hydrogen will be further processed into 300 ton/day of green ammonia , also using Topsoe technology. —Joel H.

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APRIL 5, 2021

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a continuous electrically-driven membrane process which successfully enriches lithium from seawater samples of the Red Sea by 43,000 times (i.e., to 9013.43 ppm) with a nominal Li/Mg selectivity >45 million.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

As a leading industrial gas company, Air Products has extended its onsite supply model to use coal gasification to generate synthesis gas (syngas) for major projects. To produce hydrogen via water–gas shift. Financial terms are not being disclosed, and the acquisition is expected to close in the coming months.

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MARCH 17, 2018

Researchers at Georgia Tech, with colleagues in China and Saudi Arabia, have developed a rationally designed, multi-phase catalyst that significantly enhances the kinetics of oxygen reduction of the state-of-the-art solid oxide fuel cell cathode. The ions meet to make water, which exits the fuel cell.

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JULY 26, 2011

The Silsbee facility presently consists of six operating units which, while interconnected, make distinct products through differing processes: (i) a Penhex Unit; (ii) a Reformer; (iii) a Cyclo-pentane Unit; (iv) an Aromax Unit; (v) an Aromatics Hydrogenation Treating Unit; and (vi) a White Oil Fractionation Unit.

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MAY 16, 2014

This research was published in the journal Science , with collaborators including UC Berkeley, Eindhoven University of Technology and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia. Polymers are long chains of molecules connected through chemical bonds.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia is the world’s second largest producer of crude oil, behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia, and its second largest exporter, behind Saudi Arabia. Even then, there are several industrial sectors as well as aviation and shipping that won’t be electrified in the near future.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2022

Proton ceramic electrochemical reactors can extract pure hydrogen from gas mixtures by electrolytically pumping protons across the membrane at 800 °C. Counterflowing streams balanced heat flows and maintained stable operating conditions that enabled 99% efficiency of hydrogen recovery. Figure courtesy of CoorsTek Membrane Sciences.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Extreme E’s first race, the Desert X Prix, took place on April 3 and 4, on an 18 km course centered around three canyons in the vast desert surrounding Al-’Ula, Saudi Arabia. Finally, the Odyssey 21 proved its mettle on the course at the 2020 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia. You’ve got the fuel production—the green hydrogen.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Saudi Aramco and Air Liquide Arabia have signed a long-term hydrogen supply agreement for a grassroots refinery in Yanbu’ Industrial City, on the West coast of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This new complex will be designed and built by Lurgi, a division of Air Liquide Engineering.

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