Maire’s Tecnimont, Nextchem awarded engineering design study for a green ammonia plant in India

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Tecnimont, together with sustainable technology solutions arm Nextchem, has been awarded an engineering design study (first phase of the front-end engineering design) for a green ammonia plant to be located in India. The contract was awarded by Sembcorp Green Hydrogen India.

Tecnimont secured the contract through its Indian subsidiary Tecnimont Pvt Ltd (TCMPL).

The study will leverage Nextchem’s digital tool ArcHy (Architecture of Hydrogen systems), to overcome the challenge of the intermittency of renewable power usage, resulting in capex and opex efficiency of the plant lifecycle, the company said in a statement.

In particular, the ArcHy digital tool will use renewable energy production profiles, collected over one year in different weather scenarios, to determine the size of the plant’s components like the electrolyzers, storage systems, and green ammonia production facilities to minimize the levelized cost of ammonia.

Based on the results of this analysis, TCMPL will design all the elements of the facility by providing highly specialized engineering services.

Alessandro Bernini, Maire CEO, said: “Our engagement in energy transition projects around the world, particularly in green ammonia plants, testifies to the Group’s reliability at all levels in proposing engineering and technological solutions that meet the industry’s decarbonization and cost-efficiency requirements, also thanks to our synergic and integrated approach”.