Air Products, Lehigh Valley, Pa., has awarded Germany’s Thyssenkrupp Uhde Engineers a contract to supply a more than two-gigawatt (GW) electrolysis plant for the world-scale green hydrogen-based ammonia production project it is developing in NEOM, a planned development called a model of sustainable living, in Saudi Arabia.
Under this contract, Thyssenkrupp said it will engineer, procure, and fabricate the plant based on its large-scale 20 megawatt (MW) alkaline water electrolysis module. The start of production is scheduled for 2026.
Air Products is part of a consortium with Riyadh-based ACWA Power International and NEOM, planning to build the $5-billion project, which will produce some 1.2 million mt/y of green ammonia for export to global markets. The partners announced the signing of the agreement for the project in July 2020 (GM July 10, 2020).
Air Products will be the exclusive offtaker of the green ammonia for distribution to global markets.