Inpex to use BASF tech for Kashiwazaki hydrogen/ammonia project
SUMMARY
Kashiwazaki is Japan’s first demonstration project for the production of blue hydrogen/ammonia from domestically produced natural gas.
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BASF Japan on February 28 announced that its CO2 capture technology will be used by Inpex in its Kashiwazaki clean hydrogen/ammonia project. The high-pressure regenerative CO2 capture technology, HiPACT, has been co-developed by BASF and its engineering partner JGC Corporation.
Kashiwazaki is Japan’s first demonstration project for the production of blue hydrogen/ammonia from domestically produced natural gas, the implementation of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) in domestic depleted gas fields and the use of hydrogen for power generation and ammonia production. The project is funded by the Japanese government’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO).
The HiPACT technology will be applied to capture and recover CO2 in the process gas from a hydrogen production facility using domestic natural gas as feedstock. Located in the Hirai area of Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture, the production facility is constructed by JGC Japan Corporation and is expected to start up in 2025.
The recovered CO2 will be injected into the reservoirs of the depleted gas fields leveraging CCUS technologies for enhanced gas recovery (EGR).
