Plans revealed for Humber hydrogen plant

Plans have been revealed for the development of a hydrogen production plant in East Yorkshire which is set to be the largest of its kind in the world.Equinor is leading the Hydrogen to Humber Saltend (H2H Saltend) project, which is set to create facilities to produce hydrogen from natural gas in combination with carbon capture and storage (CCS).The project will be located at Saltend Chemicals Park near Hull and its initial phase will comprise a 600 megawatt auto thermal reformer (ATR) with carbon capture, the largest plant of its kind in the world, to convert natural gas to hydrogen.It is set to enable industrial customers in the park to fully switch over to hydrogen, and the power plant in tpe Park to move to a 30 per cent hydrogen to natural gas blend. As a result, emissions from Saltend Chemicals Park are expected reduce by nearly 900,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.In its later phases, H2H Saltend would expand to serve other industrial users in the park and across the Humber, which employs 55,000 people in the manufacturing sector alone, contributing to the cluster reaching net zero by 2040.This will enable a large-scale hydrogen network, open to both blue hydrogen (produced from natural gas with CCS) and green hydrogen (produced from electrolysis of water using renewable power), as well as a network for transporting and storing captured CO2 emissions.px Group, the owner operator of the Saltend Chemicals Park, welcomed the plans.