We store hydrogen in a liquid organic carrier. The missing link to clean hydrogen supply chains.

We accelerate green hydrogen supply ramp-up within Europe.

• Green Hydrogen @ Blue Danube
  

  (Bavaria, Germany)

  Green Hydrogen @ Blue Danube is qualified in Germany within the IPCEI Hy2Infra wave by the European Commission and aims to secure a stable clean hydrogen supply across Central Europe. In the project we focus on the efficient implementation of large-scale LOHC technology by utilizing the existing infrastructure for liquid fuels.

  In South Bavaria, Germany, we are building the first LOHC hub in Central Europe with a hydrogen release capacity of up to 1,800 tonnes per year. This hub will supply industrial offtakers in the Danube region and beyond by 2028. We also aim to inject parts of the released hydrogen into local pipeline networks such as the HyPipe Bavaria to enable even more national industries with access to clean hydrogen. Later, this scope can be expanded to a national and international level by utilizing the advanced pipeline network connections to the German hydrogen core network and the European Hydrogen Backbone. For flexible and continuous hydrogen supply, Green Hydrogen @ Blue Danube can be easily linked to existing hydrogen production sites within the LOHC ecosystem.

  After successfully completing an industrial-scale LOHC value chain, we envision to kick-off a follow-up project to unlock the high potential of renewable energy sources in Southeastern Europe. Countries like Romania, Hungary or Bulgaria are capable of producing large volumes of clean hydrogen cost-efficiently. The river Danube, the second-largest river in Europe connecting Eastern and Central Europe, offers best conditions for building up pan-European industrial-scale hydrogen supply chains based on LOHC. Today, chemical and petrochemical products account for around a quarter of all goods transported on the river Danube. In the future, this existing infrastructure for liquid fuels can be leveraged with minimal effort to supply energy demanding regions in central Europe using LOHC. The unique safe characteristics of LOHC make it perfect for hydrogen transport via barge, which other transport options such as ammonia or liquified hydrogen are not capable of.

  
• Hector
  

  (Germany)

  The world’s largest plant for storing green hydrogen in liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) on an industrial scale is being built at CHEMPARK Dormagen, with construction planned in 2025. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is supporting the project with funding of 9 million euros from the progres.nrw programme. The Neuss-based subsidiary of Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies, LOHC Industrial Solutions NRW GmbH, will take charge of project management and plant operation. With its proprietary LOHC technology, the Erlangen-based parent company can contribute the key element and the corresponding scaled plant system. With the planned plant capacity, about 1,800 tonnes of hydrogen per year can be stored in LOHC.

  Its investor Covestro Deutschland AG will provide the site area and, in the future, the green hydrogen. The scientific partner is the Jülich Research Centre with its Institute for Energy and Climate Research. Two million euros of the funding for accompanying scientific studies will go there. Together with the Dutch co-investor Royal Vopak, a possible expansion of the project and potential establishment of a green hydrogen supply chain between the plant in Dormagen and Rotterdam is also being planned. There, the green hydrogen would be released from the LOHC and used primarily in the mobility and industrial sectors

  
• H2Sektor / HRS Erlangen
  

  (Germany)

  We have established a complete LOHC supply chain with green hydrogen as a fuel for mobility in Germany. So far, hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) have mostly been supplied with compressed and liquid hydrogen. Compressed hydrogen means limited capacities due to the low energy density and a high space requirement. If liquid hydrogen is stored for a longer period of time, so called boil-off losses occur. The new hydrogen refuelling station in Erlangen (operated by H2 MOBILITY Germany) shows the solution, especially for urban or incident sensitive environments: It also uses liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) for hydrogen supply including underground storage. This LOHC deployment is part of the broader H2Sektor pilot project, which involves the development and research of a complete LOHC-based chain from green hydrogen production to transport and use of the hydrogen for mobility.

  The dehydrogenation resp. release system (ReleaseBox 10) used in the H2Sektor test project at the Erlangen hydrogen refueling station is a 30-foot container. This small plant performance class releases around one kilogram of hydrogen every hour from around 20 liters of LOHC material. Following the release, a compression to 45 bar takes place. From the ReleaseBox, the hydrogen reaches an intermediate store, which ensures that it is compressed to the 350 bar (buses, trucks) and 700 bar (cars, light utility vehicles) required for refueling. Since 2022, Hydrogenious has been pursuing the development of significantly larger release systems with a capacity of at least 1.5 tons of hydrogen/day, which are particularly suitable for refueling stations supplying hydrogen truck and bus fleets.

  
• One Reactor
  

  (Germany)

  Project One Reactor is part of the Living Lab Energy Campus at Forschungszentrum Jülich. In this project we aim to unlock the full potential of LOHC as an energy storage medium. At the center of the project is a medium-scale facility based on our proprietary LOHC technology. Set to debut in early 2025, this will be the world’s largest operating LOHC system with a hydrogen storage and release capacity of approximately up to 300 kg per day.

  As the name suggests, we uniquely designed project One Reactor to operate with one single reactor, handling both the storage of hydrogen in LOHC and its release from loaded LOHC. This integrated approach not only streamlines operations but also delivers significant cost savings.

  When the sun shines brightly, an electrolyzer captures the surplus renewable energy, converting it into clean hydrogen that is securely stored in LOHC without any losses over time. When renewable energy is scarce, such during nighttime, this stored hydrogen is efficiently released, ensuring a continuous, year-round supply of clean energy for the adjacent combined heat and power (CHP) plant. Project One Reactor supplies approximately five percent of the annual fuel requirement (a combination of natural gas and hydrogen).

  Project One Reactor excels in coupling the three sectors electricity, chemical energy and heat. Waste heat generated during the storage process is efficiently utilized to feed the campus district heating network, while the heat required for hydrogen release is sourced from the CHP plant’s exhaust gas.

  

We contribute to create viable hydrogen hubs.

• H2A -RP
  

  (Netherlands)

  Within the joint cross-border lighthouse project H2A-RP, we are installing one of the first industrial large-scale LOHC ReleasePLANTS (RP) in Europe. Together with the world’s largest gasoline port, the Port of Amsterdam, and the leading liquid energy and chemical storage company Evos, we have formed a strong consortium that brings together all the expertise needed to build Europe’s new resilient hub for green hydrogen imports in Amsterdam.

  Backed by the well-known H2A (Hydrogen to Amsterdam) initiative, which aims to import one million tonnes of green hydrogen via the Port of Amsterdam, H2A-RP was launched in 2022 with the signing of a collective MoU between the three project partners.  We are currently aiming to import 36,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year using our proprietary LOHC technology. Located directly in the Port of Amsterdam, the plant provides access to over 12 terajoules  of clean energy – every single day. As a strong and indispensable pillar of Europe’s new energy infrastructure, we will supply various off-takers in the North Sea Canal area and its hinterland as well as support the European Hydrogen backbone. Thanks to the flexibility of LOHC technology and the use of existing infrastructure, H2A-RP can be easily connected to hydrogen partner projects around the world, providing multiple sources of green hydrogen.

   

   

   

• TransHyDE Helgoland
  

  (Germany)

  Within the TransHyDE project we research and develop a comprehensive LOHC-based supply chain for green hydrogen with Heligoland (North Sea) as storage location (hydrogenation) and the port of Hamburg as location for hydrogen release (dehydrogenation). The goal is to establish a reproducible and scalable blueprint for global sites with similarly challenging conditions.

  The Helgoland location is the ideal research environment for the project, as it combines many challenging environmental conditions that will be relevant again and again at potential locations around the world beyond an established industrial area/chemical site. According to the motto: “If it works on Helgoland, then it works everywhere”, the requirements for the implementation are studied in detail and checked for the potential for implementation. Heligoland-specific location challenges are:

  • Dynamic wind profile and hydrogen production profile
  • Weather conditions on the North Sea (keyword technology, material corrosion and resilience)
  • Sea water (material corrosion and resilience)
  • Tourism (inconspicuous implementation, cargo handling)
  • Little space (size of hydrogenation plant, LOHC storage, producible quantities, narrow development, competing uses)
  • Approvability in the context of the points already mentioned
  • LOHC transport and supply chain by ship