This fuel is 1000 times more powerful
Since environmental awareness began, the world has taken on the challenge of finding energy sources that do not emit greenhouse gases, are environmentally friendly and sustainable. Here we present you with a fuel produced in Denmark that is 1000 times more powerful than hydrogen.
Japan has hydrogen, but it’s Denmark’s answer
Renewable energy companies Vestas, Topsoe and Skovgaard Energy are involved in the development and production of fuels and are located in Ramm, Denmark. built and opened a plant for the production of green ammonia.
This is revealed in the latest report from the Spanish Association of Renewable Ammonia (AEAR). Therefore, although Japan has hydrogen as a green fuel, the Danes are responding with this product, which has proven to be effective in this sector.
Green ammonia production using hydrogen as feedstock
Due to the ease of producing ammonia from hydrogen, this is equivalent to 1000 times more powerful than fuel and a source of energy. Although it has a drawback related to the level of toxicity. On the other hand, this plant in Denmark has the distinction of being the first of its kind in terms of the energy used.
Because it comes entirely from renewable sources. Because the electricity comes from a park that is very close and combines photovoltaic energy with wind energy. The innovation is that they duplicate each other, that is, any of them supports the general demand.
As a rule, they work by sharing the load, but if the production of one of them decreases for any reason, the other is able to take over it without any problems. Thus, production will be constant and uninterrupted. As for energy sources, we have the following.
Before the construction of the plant, there were already six Vestas V80 wind turbines, each generating 2 MW of electricity. To increase production, the project included the installation of bifacial solar modules with a maximum total capacity of 50 MW.
In fact, for the first time, a renewable energy source is connected directly to a green ammonia plant. One of the innovations of the equipment used is its dynamic operation, which adjusts production, reducing or increasing it depending on fluctuations in electricity.
Since the availability of wind and solar energy depends on climatic factors. This means that in the long run, efficiency is optimized, making the company more profitable. This clean energy is fed into an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen, separating it from the oxygen molecule in the water.
Subsequently, green ammonia is synthesized. At this stage, hydrogen gas is combined with nitrogen, which is obtained from Danish air. This method is known as Haber-Bosch synthesis and is a “synthesis loop” method adapted to work with interruptions in renewable energy sources.
Final product: ideal for field use.
This plant in Denmark will produce per year 5000 tons of green ammoniawhich would avoid 8,200 tonnes of CO2 emissions over the same period. Its use is limited to agriculture in the form of fertilizers and industry as a carrier of hydrogen and environmental fuel.
In conclusion, with the commissioning of this green ammonia plant, Denmark is breaking Japan’s hegemony in the field of green hydrogen. Although it is a toxic fuel, due to the ease of its production, it is 1000 times more powerful than the gas from which it is produced.