Topsoe intends to assemble the world’s largest and most superior industrial-scale electrolyzer manufacturing plant. The plant will produce high-temperature Strong Oxide Electrolyzer Cells (SOEC)—which have the next power effectivity that competing applied sciences.
The brand new electrolyzer manufacturing plant, which will likely be constructed in Herning, Denmark, will likely be operational by 2024 and have an annual capability of 500 MW with scalability as much as 5 GW, making it one of many first industrial-scale vegetation of its form. Building is scheduled to start within the second half of this yr, topic to Board and different regulatory approvals.
The Topsoe SOEC electrolyzer is a compact stack constructed primarily from ample, low-cost ceramic supplies enclosed inside a metallic housing. To provide hydrogen, it makes use of electrical energy to separate water molecules (H2O) into hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2). That is completed by three elements: an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. The cathode splits water molecules, through discount, into hydrogen and oxide ions, after which the oxide ions are transported by means of the electrolyte to the anode and oxidized into oxygen.
The high-temperature SOEC unit’s excessive diploma of automation and auto-response functionality, throughout all the hydrogen course of, decrease oversight and coaching necessities—in addition to related dangers—for environment friendly, handy on-site hydrogen manufacturing and provide.
Topsoe’s ambition is to speed up quickly the adoption of inexperienced options—specifically inside Energy-to-X.
We’re keen and capable of help society’s inexperienced ambitions and the necessity to speed up the power transition, and we’ve the know-how to do it. With our new electrolyzer manufacturing plant, we cleared the path in rushing up commercial-size Energy-to-X options, and we do it with our extremely modern know-how that outmatches applied sciences at the moment available in the market.
—Roeland Baan, CEO at Topsoe
Topsoe is already seeing appreciable curiosity in Energy-to-X options and is in superior dialogue with quite a lot of potential companions over future offtake agreements and commitments to order capability from the electrolyzer plant.
Growing a robust Energy-to-X business in Europe can even implement the EU’s ambitions of being unbiased of power imports from different areas. The milestone in guaranteeing large-scale availability of electrolyzers for Energy-to-X options takes place similtaneously Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Fee, and state leaders from Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, and Belgium signed an settlement, by which the events conform to put money into a ten-fold capability improve of offshore wind by 2050.
The political settlement ensures vital availability of the renewable energy wanted to produce future Energy-to-X amenities within the EU.
