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Methanol, Ammonia & Hydrogen
Hydrogen Americas Summit, June 2021
Charley Rattan
• Oil and gas majors background
• 15 years offshore wind big six
• Major offshore projects
• Hydrogen Strategic Intelligence
• Hydrogen business advisor
• Training,‘World Hydrogen
Leaders’ USA, Canada,
Singapore
Ammonia: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• Agricultural - use as fertiliser
• Toxic, dangerous
• Properties known - NASA
• Disassociation and explodes at
high temperatures
• Difficult to handle and unpleasant
• Energy intensive production
• World’s second biggest chemical
energy emitter
• Ammonia and Methanol
breakdown – right
Introducing Methanol • Methano into hydrogen through a
catalytic process, using a fuel
reformer.
• Temperature of 200-300 °C
• May offer a route to Net Zero for
sectors such as shipping
• Methanol vessels first mover?
• Ardmore concept - hydrogen on
demand at the point of
consumption
Ammonia - Explosive
• Ammonium nitrate
• Beirut 2020
• Lessons learned
• Storage regime
• Oil and gas majors used to it
Do not ignore!
Ammonia Green
• As with hydrogen the green
version is most expensive
• Abatement will be a legal
requirement
• Green hydrogen hoping to benefit
from scaling and clustering
• Similar principles could be applied
to green ammonia?
• Haber-Bosch process
Ammonia – Storage
• Carbon-free fuel - contains only
hydrogen and nitrogen,
• Breaks down to only water and
nitrogen
• The ammonia molecule is one of
the best alternatives for the
mid/long-term storage of
electricity
• Chemical energy
Agricultural Uses of Ammonia
• Agriculture and chemical
industries
• Agriculture to decarbonise –
hydrogen tractors
• German companies leading the
charge
• Siemens strategic developments
• Ammonia could re-engage
agricultural industry in
decarbonisation
Ammonia – Distribution and Storage
• SME’S extant
• Example - SME exports 300
cylinders per day of ammonia gas
from its plant
• Supply chain opportunities
• “precious energy can be saved by
packaging hydrogen chemically in
a synthetic liquid hydrocarbon
like methanol...”
Ports and Shipping: Health and Safety
• Ammonia can be burnt in a
reciprocating engine
• Shipping sector developing an
ammonia engine
• Progressively introduce ammonia
into vessel propulsion
• Methanol & Battery vessels also in
testing
• 1 June 2021, Liquid Wind raises
€4M in equity to produce eFuel
Sweden
Ammonia and Wind - Holland
• Netherlands - October 2020
• Ørsted and Yara – leading fertiliser
company
• Pioneering project with renewable
hydrogen in the production of
ammonia with the potential to
abate more than 100,000 tonnes of
CO2 per year
• Sector coupling
The Wider Opportunity
• Energy islands, power-to-x?
• Hydrogen and offshore,
electrolysis
• Re-purposed platforms and
infrastructure
• Hybrid schemes
• Baltic and North Sea – build out
• Supply chain implications
• Ammonia?
Ammonia and Carbon Free Aviation
• August 2020 Ammonia for
aviation - Rolls-Royce is making a
further investment together with
Reaction Engines Ltd
• UK Ministry of Defence contract
to undertake design studies,
research, development, analysis
and experimentation related to
high-Mach advanced propulsion
systems
Ammonia, Methanol and Hydrogen - Summary
• Synergies between Hydrogen
Ammonia and Methanol
important parts of the Net Zero
Agenda
• Methanol and Ammonia both
useful for transport and
distribution of hydrogen
• Ammonia Noxious and toxic -
treat with respect
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