Fertiglobe, the nitrogen fertilizer partnership between OCI Global NV and ADNOC, reported on Nov. 20 that it has completed the first shipment of the world’s first internationally recognized renewable ammonia with ISCC Plus (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) certification.
The renewable ammonia was produced at the company’s facilities in Egypt using green hydrogen from the Egypt Green Hydrogen Electrolyzer and was shipped to India’s Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd. (TFL). Fertiglobe said TFL will produce the near-zero emissions synthetic soda ash, a key ingredient of laundry powder, for Unilver’s India business, Hindustan Unilever.
Fertiglobe
is developing the Egypt Green Hydrogen project in Ain Sokhna, in Egypt’s Suez
Canal Economic Zone, in partnership with Norway’s Scatec, Egypt’s Orascom
Construction, the Egyptian Electricity Co., and the Sovereign Fund of Egypt.
Commissioning of the first phase of the project started last November (GM Nov. 11, 2022).
Once completed, the facility, known as “Green Egypt,” will have capacity to
produce up to 15,000 mt/y of green hydrogen, serving as feedstock for producing
up to 90,000 mt/y of renewable ammonia at Fertiglobe’s existing EBIC ammonia
plant at Ain Sokhna.