A new hydrogen-ready furnace has been installed at the EET Fuels Stanlow site in Ellesmere Port.
Delivered to the site in Augusts 2022, the hydrogen-ready furnace is now fully operational and will be capable of running on 100 per cent refinery off gas (ROG), a blend of ROG and hydrogen fuel, or 100 per cent hydrogen.
The furnace will be conventionally fuelled until 2028, when it will transition to using 100 per cent low-carbon hydrogen, produced by EET Hydrogen’s HPP1 plant.
HPP1 is the UK’s first large-scale low-carbon hydrogen production plant, located at the heart of the HyNet decarbonisation cluster, and will be connected to the Liverpool Bay carbon dioxide transport and storage system, which reached financial close last week.
The company say it will improve the Stanlow site’s air quality, significantly reducing NOX emissions, and its energy efficiency will reduce the refinery’s annual carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 16,000 tonnes when using conventional ROG fuel, and approximately 200,000 tons when fuelled by low-carbon hydrogen.
Deepak Maheshwari, chief executive officer at EET Fuels, said: “Decommissioning three old furnaces and connecting this new highly efficient hydrogen-ready furnace to our refinery is a significant milestone for EET Fuels.
“It's a major milestone in the delivery on our decarbonisation strategy.”
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