Air Products has selected Haldor Topsoe’s low-carbon SynCOR technology for a world-scale net-zero hydrogen energy complex in Canada. Topsoe’s SynCOR technology will enable capture of more than 95% of CO₂ emissions from the production of blue hydrogen from natural gas for the recently announced Air Products facility to be built in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Earlier post.) The captured CO₂ will be stored underground.

Hydrogen-fueled electricity will power the plant and offset the remaining five percent of emissions at the site. The clean energy complex will help refining and petrochemical customers served by the Air Products Heartland Hydrogen Pipeline to reduce their carbon intensity. The complex will also produce liquid hydrogen for merchant sales and as a clean fuel in the transportation sector.

This industry-proven and advanced technology produces hydrogen at large scale with low emissions and energy consumption. Canada’s clean energy diversification strategy has marked hydrogen as a key enabler for Canada to achieve its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Expected to come onstream in 2024, the SynCOR-based hydrogen facility will effectively support that goal.

Topsoe offers a complete range of market-leading hydrogen production technologies, including electrolysis technology to produce green hydrogen.

The hydrogen complex is part of Air Products’ ambition to reach more than 1,500 tons of hydrogen production per day and achieve more than three million tons per year of CO₂ capture in Alberta alone.