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GASTECHNO DEVELOPS DME AND POM TECHNOLOGY WITH BIO FRIENDS & H&H WORLDWIDE

Renewable natural gas from landfills, anerobic digesters and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) facilities used to produce renewable methanol and DME

WALLOON LAKE, MICHIGAN, USA, November 11, 2020 — Gas Technologies LLC (GTL), based in Michigan, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Bio Friends Inc. (BFI) and H&H Worldwide, Inc. to develop a fully integrated Renewable Methanol to Dimethyl ether (DME) and Polyoxymethylene (POM) system within the United States.

The integrated systems will use renewable gas from landfills, anerobic digesters and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) facilities as feedstocks to produce renewable fuels and chemicals including methanol.

The partners plan to move into exclusive technology agreements in specific markets.

The parties will develop their first commercial projects in California and Michigan and then build out across the United States with an option to expand internationally.

There is a growing demand for clean transportation fuels in the United States and DME and POM have significant potential to supply the automobile, heavy equipment, and trucking fleet markets. Further, DME delivered in a gaseous liquid phase can be blended with Propane for residential, commercial and industrial heating and power applications. POM is sold as a liquid chemical or fuel additive, and can be blended into diesel fuel, aviation fuel, shipping and bunker fuels to significantly reduce carbon emissions.

GTL has been involved in DME and POM technology development since 2010. To expand on its efforts, the POM process was funded June 8, 2015 by the US Department of Energy (DOE) through a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant using GTL’s patented Mini-GTL^® technology making a clean diesel-like fuel with zero SOX and reduced NOX emissions. The DOE-funded study was completed on March 18, 2016 and validated the company’s assumptions.

On November 14, 2017, GTL entered into a Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Agreement with Polytechnique de Montréal, one of Canada’s most prestigious Universities, to further develop the economic business case for the new diesel technology.

“We have been seeking a commercial partner to produce DME and POM products for a couple of years to build upon our extensive work in this field. In June 2015, we were awarded by DOE an SBIR grant to innovate and develop a new diesel replacement technology making POM.

We successfully completed the DOE pilot study in March 2016”, said Walter Breidenstein, CEO. “We have multiple patents in this field and, since renewable fuels and chemicals are making significant progress, we are so delighted to move forward and collaborate with Bio Friends and H&H Worldwide.”

Bio Friends Inc. was established in 2016 and has successfully completed the construction of a commercialized DME plant in South Korea. BFI is also developing a technology that can produce DME and methanol from biomass and small-scale oil fields.

BFI has participated in various national projects promoted by the government of South Korea. For example, in 2018 BFI was awarded KRW 3 billion (USD 2.5 million) for the demonstration of a new DME engine that can reduce emissions of fine particulate matters. This project was announced and supported by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of the Korea government, and it will end next year.

In August 2020, Bio Friends completed construction of their latest DME plant in the Boeun Industrial Complex, which is in the center part of South Korea. This commercial-scale DME production facility generates 20,000 liters per day that is used as a blowing agent (35%) and aerosol (65%). It will serve as a liquid carrier for hydrogen production, an alternative diesel fuel competitor, and for blending with LPG.

BFI and its USA partner H&H Worldwide are joining GasTechno for plans to construct a new a BioDME plant in California to produce renewable DME using the GasTechno^® Mini-GTL^® 300 methanol system. The commercial market for DME in California will be used for LPG and propane blending, an alternative fuel over diesel, and hydrogen fueling.

According to Wonjun Cho, CEO of BFI, he stated: “We have been looking for a renewable methanol partner in the United States to integrate our DME-Hydrogen system, and GasTechno is scaled for the perfect size using our smaller plants.

Since they are developing automobile and engine relationships in Michigan, this joint California project producing renewable methanol and DME will shorten our development plans. Our goal is to construct a renewable methanol based DME-Hydrogen ecosystem. Our DME and H2 system is ready for commercialization now.”

The new DME-Hydrogen production facility will provide a pathway into the hydrogen economy in California and promote various hydrogen businesses such as hydrogen refueling, distributed power generation for hydrogen fuel cells, and hydrogen for heavy-duty trucks and railroad cars.

BFI has developed strong financial and cooperative support from three of the largest Korean conglomerates that are seeking various pathways to renewable methanol, DME and hydrogen starting in the United States.

Source: Einpresswire

Shell catalysts & technologies launches the shell blue Hydrogen process for Affordable blue Hydrogen

Shell catalysts & technologies is launching the shell blue hydrogen process

This integrates proven technologies for significant increases in the affordability of green field projects for blue hydrogen production from natural gas along with carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).

Affordable blue hydrogen is an important part of the energy transition enabling the decarbonisation of hard to abate heavy industries while creating value for refiners and resource holders.

Although renewable electricity is expanding rapidly, without low-carbon hydrogen the net-zero goals announced by governments and companies will be difficult to achieve. The EU’s hydrogen strategy , for example describes the fuel as essential to support the EU’s commitment to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and for the global effort to implement the Paris agreement.

Currently, hydrogen production is nearly all “grey” (from hydrocarbons without CCUS) and accounts for more than double the UK’s annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. If hydrogen is to contribute to carbon neutrality , it must be produced on a much larger scale and with far lower emission levels.

Long term , the answer is likely to be “green” hydrogen produced from the electrolysis of water powered by renewable energy.

However, electrolysis is currently expensive and there is insufficient renewable energy available to support larg scale production.

Meeting today’s demand through electrolysis would require more than the EU’s annual electricity use. And using the current EU electricity mix would produce grey hydrogen from electrolysis with 2.2 times the greenhouse gas emissions producing grey hydrogen from natural gas.

Scaling up blue hydrogen production will be easier than delivering green hydrogen. With CO2 costing $25 up to 35/t ,blue hydrogen becomes competitive against grey, even with its higher capital costs. And green hydrogen may still be more than double the price of blue hydrogen by 2030 and not achieve cost parity until about 2045.

This analysis is based on conventional steam methane reforming (SMR) and autothemal reforming (ATR) technologies. The availability of the shell blue hydrogen process, which integrates proprietary shell gas partial oxidation (SGP) technology with ADIP ULTRA solvent technology , further improves blue hydrogen economics.

A key advantage of SGP technology over ART is that the parial oxidation reaction does not require steam.instead, high- pressure steam is generated , which satisfies the steam demands of the process and some other power consumers. There is also no need for feed gas pretreatment , which simples the process line-up. And SGP gives refiners greater feed flexibility , as it is more robust against feed contaminates and can thus accommodate a large range of natural gas qualities.

Compare with ATR,SGP technology gives a %22 lower levellised cost of hydrogen form:

%17 lower capital expenditure (higher operating pressure giving smaller hydrogen compressor and CO2 capture and compressor units)
%34 lower operating expenditure(excluding the natural gas feedstock price) form reduced compression duties and more steam generation.

Modelling shows that, compared with an ATR unit, a shell blue Hydrogen process line-up producing 500 t/d of pure hydrogen would have:

$30 million lower operating expenditure
%10 greater CO2 recovery
A 10 up to 25 percent lower levellised cost of hydrogen

When compared with SMR, SGP technology leads to even grater hydrogen production cost saving from both the capital and operating expenditure prespectives.

Source: fuelcellsworks

Coalition Aims for 25GW of Green Hydrogen by 2026

Seven firms join forces for fiftyfold scale-up of global hydrogen production capacity

The soaring hype surrounding green hydrogen reached new heights this week, as a seven-company-strong consortium unveiled plans for a fiftyfold scale-up in production capacity by 2026.

ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Iberdrola, Ørsted, Snam and Yara launched a coalition called the Green Hydrogen Catapult with the aim of deploying 25 gigawatts of renewables-based hydrogen production capacity by 2026.

The coalition, which is linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Race to Zero campaign, is also hoping to halve the cost of green hydrogen production, cutting it to less than $2 per kilogram.

A January 2020 report from industry group the Hydrogen Council suggested this price could be a tipping point for green hydrogen and derivatives such as ammonia to become “the energy source of choice across multiple sectors,” according to a Race to Zero press release.

These sectors could include steel and fertilizer production, power generation and long-range shipping, the coalition said. Green hydrogen could supply up to 25 percent of global energy needs by 2050, it added.

The coalition also cited Goldman Sachs research indicating that the addressable market for green hydrogen could be worth 10 trillion euros ($12 trillion at current exchange rates) by 2050.

“From an industry perspective, we see no technical barriers to achieving this, so it’s time to get on with the virtuous cycle of cost reduction through scale-up,” said Paddy Padmanathan, CEO of ACWA Power, in the release.

Aligning green hydrogen production with climate goals

“Catapult is a global coalition and will be engaging partners from other countries to participate going forward,” Kieran Coleman, energy and industry lead at the COP26 Global Climate Action Champions unit, said in an email. “Membership will grow from both [the] demand and supply sides.”

The Green Hydrogen Catapult said it aims to align the production and use of green hydrogen with a trajectory that displaces fossil fuels at a rate consistent with achieving net-zero global emissions by 2050 and limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Robert Castek, energy analyst and project manager at Edinburgh, Scotland-based Delta-EE, said in an interview that linking green hydrogen build-out to global climate goals is a noteworthy development.

“It is especially encouraging to see players from utilities through industrial companies to infrastructure developers coming together to drive this forward, with the global 1.5-degree Celsius temperature target front of mind,” he said.

“The Green Hydrogen Catapult initiative represents a strong signal of intent from the private sector to support the deployment of zero-carbon hydrogen.”

But in a sign of just how much interest in green hydrogen has taken off in recent months, Castek also said the Green Hydrogen Catapult coalition might not necessarily be seen as a game-changer for the industry.

ACWA Power, one of the coalition partners, is already working with Air Products & Chemicals of the U.S. on a $5 billion green hydrogen plant in Saudi Arabia that will be powered by 4 gigawatts of wind and solar and will produce 650 tons of the gas per day.

And Iberdrola, another coalition partner, is planning to install 800 megawatts of electrolyzer capacity for green hydrogen production in a $2.1 billion partnership with fertilizer and industrial chemicals firm Fertiberia

Surging interest as the industry enters the “decade of hydrogen”

Elsewhere, Plug Power last month raised about $1 billion in a bought equity transaction to fund a plan to build what could be the first U.S.-wide network of green hydrogen production facilities to supply fuel-cell-powered vehicles, including its own, with carbon-free fuel.

In August, Wood Mackenzie predicted the 2020s will be the “decade of hydrogen.” The analyst firm estimates that the cost of green hydrogen will fall by as much as 64 percent by 2040, on a level with traditional forms of production from fossil fuel feedstocks.

As green hydrogen production costs are forecast to fall with lower renewable electricity pricing and increased electrolyzer utilization rates, increasing natural gas prices could drive up the price of hydrogen from steam methane reforming, currently the cheapest production option, by 82 percent outside China by 2040, WoodMac estimates.

“The cost of green hydrogen relative to its more carbon-intense alternatives has always been a hindrance,” said Juergen Wollschlaeger, CEO of German crude oil refinery Raffinerie Heide, in an email.

“Collaborative efforts like this, where industry, international organizations and nonprofits are aligned on a common goal, will have a meaningful impact on the development of the green hydrogen economy.”

Economies of scale through increased production capacity, combined with supportive regulation and investment, “will get green hydrogen off the ground,” Wollschlaeger said.