On March 27, China’s first offshore hydrogen-ammonia-alcohol integration project was completed in Yantai, Shandong Province, and officially entered the commissioning stage, laying the foundation for the project’s commissioning and empirical testing of the whole process of hydrogen production at sea, according to Xinhua News Agency.
The project is jointly built by CHN Energy Group Hydrogen Technology Co., Ltd., CIMC Raffles Offshore Engineering Pte Ltd (CIMC Raffles) and Guoneng Hydrogen Innovation Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. It is the first domestic marine hydrogen energy production-storage-transmission-use full chain demonstration project.
Located in 5 kilometers of water off the east coast of Yantai City, Shandong Province, the project can utilize new offshore energy to produce hydrogen off-grid and further convert the green hydrogen into ammonia and methanol, which can be easily stored. These two chemical products are both clean fuels for ships and important industrial raw materials that can be widely used in chemical production and energy.
The project involves China’s first semi-submersible offshore hydrogen production platform, which is more than 50 meters high, equivalent to a 17-story building, and weighs more than 20,000 tons. It is expected to become an offshore fuel replenishment station for ocean-going ships in the future.
The completion of this project has achieved the first empirical test of the entire process of offshore hydrogen production, provided technical support for the formulation of industry standards for marine hydrogen energy development, filled the gap in relevant specifications and standards for offshore hydrogen production in China, and laid a solid foundation for China’s new energy development to advance into deep sea.