Maire’s Tecnimont with NextChem awarded engineering-design study for green-ammonia plant in India
Maire announced July 15 that Tecnimont’s Indian subsidiary together with NextChem has been awarded an engineering-design study contract by Sembcorp Green Hydrogen India for a green-ammonia plant to be located in India.
An engineering-design study is the first phase of the front-end engineering design.
Sembcorp Green Hydrogen India’s plant will be scaled to produce 200,000 metric tons per year of green ammonia, according to Maire.
The study will leverage Nextchem’s digital tool ArcHy, which stands for architecture of hydrogen systems, to overcome the challenge of the intermittency of renewable power usage, resulting in capex and opex efficiency of the plant lifecycle.
In particular, ArcHy digital tool will use renewable energy production profiles, collected over a one-year period in different weather scenarios, to determine the size of the plant’s components like the electrolyzers, storage systems and green-ammonia production facilities with the aim of minimizing the levelized cost of ammonia.
Based on the results of this analysis, Tecnimont will design all the elements of the facility by providing highly specialized engineering services.
“Our engagement in energy-transition projects around the world, particularly in green ammonia plants, testifies to the group’s reliability at all levels in proposing engineering and technological solutions that meet the industry’s decarbonization and cost-efficiency requirements, also thanks to our synergic and integrated approach,” said Maire CEO Alessandro Bernini.
