“Our investment decision shows what can be achieved when the right conditions are in place to deliver competitive projects.”
The Importance of Clean Hydrogen
Hydrogen is crucial to reducing greenhouse gas emissions because the only by-product of its use as a fuel is water, and it has the potential to power a wide range of applications, from heavy vehicles to electricity generation, without emitting CO2.
However, most hydrogen produced today is grey hydrogen, produced from natural gas via steam methane reforming (SMR), which emits CO2. Green hydrogen, on the other hand, is produced via electrolysis, using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. REFHYNE II uses this process to produce clean hydrogen, helping to decarbonise energy-intensive industries.
“Hydrogen will play a key role in decarbonizing energy-intensive industrial sectors, and Linde is at the forefront of developing the technologies needed to make this happen,” said John van der Velden, senior vice president, Global Sales & Technology, Linde Engineering. “This project leverages our decades of experience developing large-scale hydrogen projects around the world, and we are proud to have been selected by Shell to help realize their vision for REFHYNE II.”
