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Industrial gas firm Linde plans to build a 9MW alkaline electrolyser on Singapore's Jurong island as part of a long-term green hydrogen supply deal with German chemicals firm Evonik.
"The new plant is expected to come on stream in 2024 and will be the largest electrolyser ever installed in Singapore," Linde said on 20 April without disclosing further details of the deal. The plant should be able to produce around 200 kg/hour of green hydrogen.
Linde will also own and operate the plant. Evonik plans to use the green hydrogen from the plant to manufacture methionine, a key component in animal feed. The deal with Linde is to support Evonik's planned expansion in Singapore by helping to limit its greenhouse gas emissions.
Evonik last month announced that it plans to expand its methionine capacity on Jurong island by 40,000t to around 340,000 t/yr by the third quarter of 2024.
Linde currently supplies hydrogen, as well as methane and CO2, to the methionine plants from two steam methane reformer-based integrated gas facilities on Jurong island that it built as part of earlier agreements with Evonik in 2014 and 2019.
"The electrolyser investment marks a significant supply concept shift away from Linde's earlier investments for Evonik," Lawrence Koh, Linde's director of business development and head of China hydrogen business, said. "Companies are making greener decisions for their new investments and so is Linde."
The planned Jurong island electrolyser will also supply the domestic merchant market to meet rising demand for green hydrogen, Linde said. Singapore sees the development and use of low-carbon hydrogen as a major decarbonisation pathway, having set a goal to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Linde is separately studying the use of hydrogen as an aviation fuel with Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority, Changi Airport and aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
Singapore so far has plans to import hydrogen from Malaysia and Japan, although supplies could also come from Indonesia.
