Air Products recently unveiled it will build a landmark megaproject, which will produce over 750 MM standard ft³/d of blue hydrogen. A portion of the blue hydrogen will be compressed and supplied by Air Products’ U.S. Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network to customers. The balance of the blue hydrogen will be used to make blue ammonia that will be transported around the world and converted back to blue hydrogen for transportation and other markets.

Topsoe will deliver its blue ammonia synthesis technology, proprietary hardware and catalysts to the facility, to be built in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. The facility will avoid the emission of over 5 MM metric t of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

Topsoe and Air Products already have a well-established collaboration with Topsoe delivering technology for Gulf Coast Ammonia’s world-scale ammonia facility in Texas City (3,600 MMtpd), Texas, and the NEOM project in Saudi Arabia with a capacity of 650 MMtpd of green hydrogen that will be converted into 3,500 MMtpd of green ammonia. Furthermore, Topsoe will provide its SynCOR™ blue hydrogen technology to Air Products’ recently announced blue hydrogen complex in Alberta, Canada.

Blue ammonia is an environmentally friendly way of producing ammonia with integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) to minimize greenhouse gas emissions.