Herewith the first stop we can announce. On June 30, the HYdrogen Trail Europe (HYTE) will call at BASF in Ludwigshafen. There the chemical giant is building a pilot plant for the turquoise route for hydrogen production. Emission-free hydrogen from natural gas with valuable carbon as a second product.
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Germany – Chemical group BASF wants to be CO2 neutral by 2050. By 2030, the group wants to reduce its global greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent compared to 2018. And this while growth continues and BASF is currently building a large chemical complex in southern China. In total, BASF plans to invest up to […]
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In Ludwigshafen chemical giant BASF is building a pilot installation for the pyrolysis of methane. Besides hydrogen, the process does not produce CO2, but valuable solid carbon from natural gas or biogas. Next year the pilot installation will be put into operation. After 2025 commercial upscaling may follow. A relatively underexposed and clean alternative for […]
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The breakthrough of hydrogen seems imminent. However, the problem is CO2 emissions during production. Methane pyrolysis produces hydrogen from natural gas with carbon as a valuable by-product. Call it the turquoise variant. BASF, Shell and also TNO see possibilities. Currently, the industry already uses a lot of hydrogen. Among other things for the desulphurization of […]
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