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Wood to deliver engineering for major European green hydrogen facility Wood has been awarded the front-end engineering design( FEED) scope for the Zeevonk hydrogen facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The hydrogen plant will be powered by offshore wind and floating offshore solar from the Zeevonk offshore developments.
The Zeevonk project is a joint venture between Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners( CIP), through its Energy Transition Fund( CI ETF I).
The facility will be designed to reach significant peak consumption and, once complete, the produced hydrogen will be transported via pipeline to the nearby hydrogen grid, Hydrogen Network Rotterdam. This network is the first phase of the new Dutch hydrogen infrastructure centered in the Port of Rotterdam, one of Europe’ s most significant energy ports.
Claus Vissing-Jørgensen, Project Director at Zeevonk, said:“ We are excited to collaborate with Wood to bring our hydrogen vision to life in the Netherlands. The awarding of our FEED represents a significant milestone for our large-scale hydrogen plant planned in the Maasvlakte area. Over the next 10 months, the FEED will provide detailed cost estimates and lay the groundwork for our upcoming EPC tender process, expected in Q2 this year.”
The project, which began in 2021 and is supported by the US Department of Energy( DOE), developed a novel non-vacuum tank design concept for large-scale( up to 100,000 m ³) storage of LH 2
, which is anticipated to provide a substantial cost advantage over conventional vacuum-insulated tanks. This concept is being demonstrated through the construction, startup, and testing of a smallscale LH 2 demonstration tank at NASA MSFC. The demonstration tank will significantly increase the MSFC hydrogen test facility’ s LH 2 storage capacity and be used to characterize the behavior of materials under cryogenic conditions, mimicking normal fill and empty cycles and testing non-vacuum insulation materials. In addition to an estimated sixmonth test period included in the project scope, a Space Act Agreement among the partner organizations provides for MSFC’ s use of the tank over a five-year period, during which CB & I and Shell will continue to test new insulation technologies under non-vacuum conditions.
CB & I and Shell demonstrate commercialscale LH 2 storage tank design CB & I and a consortium including Shell International Exploration and Production, GenH2, and the University of Houston have announced the completion of a first-of-itskind, affordable, large-scale liquid hydrogen( LH 2
) storage tank concept at NASA’ s Marshall Space Flight Center( MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama.
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