US energy and chemical engineer KBR has won a contract to provide its K-GreeN technology to a planned green ammonia project in the US, said the company.
The project is planned by a company called Avina Clean Hydrogen. KBR will provide the process technology licence and engineering design for the grassroots project to produce 2,200 tonnes/day of green ammonia.
KBR’s design for Avina encompasses an integrated green ammonia solution from electrolysis to ammonia synthesis, it said. It did not comment on project costs or timelines for construction and start-up of production.
The contract award comes after Avina announced long-term offtake agreements in December 2022 for 100% of the output from the first phase of a green ammonia plant under development on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Avina could not be reached for additional comment on Tuesday. The company is described as a developer of clean hydrogen plants, with 1.5GW of clean hydrogen plants planned or under development.
We remind, KBR has launched a new ethylene and propylene process technology, utilising 100% hydrogen-fuelled burners, “for zero emissions from the ethylene cracking furnaces,” said the US energy and chemicals engineer company. The new SCOREKlean technology would play a major role to decarbonise the petrochemical industry, given that furnaces are the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the industry, KBR said.
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