Brazil is betting on green hydrogen by building the largest plant in the world

Camaçari (Brazil), July 26 (EFE). The multinational company Unigel this Tuesday laid the first stone of what will be the world’s largest green hydrogen plant when it becomes operational at the end of 2023, and this puts Brazil ahead in industrial production of this type of clean fuel.

With an investment of $120 million, but using the infrastructure and logistics the company already has at the Camaçari petrochemical complex and at the port of Aratu, in the state of Bahia (northeast), silver will produce 10,000 tons per year of green hydrogen and 60,000 tons of “clean” ammonia.

“Our investment is a pioneering investment, and certainly when the plant starts with green hydrogen and green ammonia, it will be the largest in the world and we will be with Brazil at the forefront of development, bringing the ‘decarbonisation’ process in the world,” commented Evie Roberto Noronha, President of Unigel.

The second phase, starting in 2025, expects to quadruple production in the built-up area of ​​60,000 square meters to 40,000 tons of green hydrogen annually and 240,000 tons of “clean” ammonia.

In the same year, 2025, it is scheduled to start operation of the American Air Products plant in Saudi Arabia, which with an investment of $5,000 million expects to produce 650 tons of green hydrogen per day, and will then become the largest in Saudi Arabia. the scientist. the scientist.

Green or renewable hydrogen (H2V) is generated through the process of “water electrolysis”, which is the separation of oxygen and hydrogen, and is mainly used to produce fertilizers for agricultural activity, although it can also be used as a fuel and industrial raw materials.

Brazil’s potential

“It is the energy of the future and the world faces a challenge of how to produce more clean energy, which comes from solar and wind energy. Brazil has an opportunity to be a supplier of clean energy on an industrial scale, using green hydrogen, for the whole world”, said Minister of Environment, Joaquim Letty.

For the minister, green hydrogen strengthens “a fertile economy, not only to reduce gas emissions (the greenhouse effect) but also to be innovative”, with the potential to get 85% of the energy matrix from renewable sources such as hydraulic, wind and solar.

Leite highlighted the potential of Brazil’s northeastern coast states with sun, wind and “storm-free sea”, which are “cheap” conditions from producing energy from these renewable sources. EFE

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