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Clean Refinery Hydrogen for Europe II

Project description

Green hydrogen and oxygen for refineries’ decarbonisation

Green hydrogen and oxygen are used to decarbonise refineries’ operations. The REFHYNE project installed a 10 MW polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyser at the Shell Rhineland Refinery in Wesseling, Germany, to supply Clean Refinery Hydrogen for Europe. The EU-funded REFHYNE II project will install a 100 MW PEM electrolyser using renewable power to produce cost effective and timely green hydrogen and oxygen. The project will rely on the experience of the REFHYNE team and install the electrolyser at the same site. REFHYNE II will make a viable business case of large-scale electrolysis at refineries by valorising the hydrogen and oxygen stream in the refinery, obtaining Renewable Energy Directive credits for the hydrogen produced and improving efficiency and capital cost.

Objective

REFHYNE II will install a 100MW PEM electrolyser at Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland in Cologne, Germany, using renewable power to produce green hydrogen and oxygen, which will be fed-in to the existing refinery networks to decarbonise refinery operations. The electrolyser will be based on state of the art 2MW PEM stack assemblies integrated into pre-engineered 10MW electrolyser core units, with factory assembled balance of plant to reduce the amount of bespoke work required to integrate electrolysers into new sites. The project will be delivered by the same team responsible for the REFHYNE project that has installed a 10MW PEM electrolyser at the same site, exploiting the experience of the consortium to deliver a timely and cost-effective project.
REFHYNE II will achieve a viable business case for large-scale electrolysis at refineries by valorising the hydrogen stream in the refinery and receiving RED credits for the hydrogen produced, while minimising the cost of hydrogen through improvements in efficiency and capital cost. A research task will explore the upgrading of waste heat to higher temperatures for use in the refinery, to further improve the business case.
Power will be sourced through novel PPAs with named renewable plants. Emissions avoidance will be achieved by displacing the hydrogen currently produced on-site through SMR and adapting the refinery to allow the electrolyser to act as a flexible load and hence contract direct with renewable generators, to increase renewable penetration into the grid.
Research work packages will support the deployment of 100MW+ scale electrolysers at refineries and industrial sites across Europe and enable GW-scale electrolysis systems to be implemented. Finally, a thorough dissemination work package will exploit the results of the project by delivering key messages to target audiences, and supporting three fast follower sites (of which at least two will be located in EU13 countries) to rapidly replicate the results of the project.

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€ 890 635,00
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