Denmark’s Topsoe reported on Jan. 19 that it has been chosen by Mintal Hydrogen Energy Technology (Mintal), Beijing, as technology provider for a new 390,000 mt/y green ammonia plant in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China.
The new plant, which Topsoe calls the first dynamic green ammonia plant in China, is expected to start production in 2025. The technology includes Topsoe’s first Power-to-X and Topsoe’s process licensing, engineering design package, proprietary equipment, and catalysts.
The green ammonia will replace approximately 850,000 mt/y of coal and help reduce more than 2 million mt of CO2 from being emitted to the atmosphere every year, as well as 6.4 mt/y of sulfur dioxide, 3.2 mt/y of nitrogen oxides, and 3.2 mt/y of smoke and dust, according to Mintal.
Inner Mongolia is rich in wind energy resources, and Mintal estimates that the area’s wind resources have the potential of being developed into a total output capacity of 150 gigawatts. This corresponds to 40% of the available wind energy resources in China.