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INOX Air Products commissions its first green hydrogen plant
INOX Air Products( INOXAP), India’ s largest manufacturer of industrial, electronic, and medical gases, has commissioned its firstever green hydrogen production plant at Asahi India Glass’ s( AIS) greenfield float glass facility at Soniyana in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan.
AIS, India’ s leading glass manufacturer, has entered into a 20-year offtake agreement with INOXAP for the supply of green hydrogen to this facility. The plant, powered by solar energy, will have a capacity to generate up to 190 tons of green hydrogen annually through the electrolysis process. This will be India’ s first instance of using green hydrogen in the float glass manufacturing process.
INOXAP is responsible for the design, engineering, installation, operations, and the continuous supply of green hydrogen to the AIS facility for a period of 20 years. In the first phase, 95 TPA of green hydrogen will be supplied to AIS. As part of the agreement, AIS has invested in the solar power plant, which is supplying renewable energy for the generation of green hydrogen, to be used in AIS’ s float glass manufacturing process.
of its hydrogen network, comprising 55 kilometres of pipeline. In Nordhorn, the initial filling of the pipeline between Lingen and Bad Bentheim began in late March 2025.
This section in south-western Lower Saxony is the first part of the hydrogen core network and consists of 95 % repurposed pipelines previously used for other gases. In the first phase of commissioning, the network section was filled with a total of 28,500 m ³ of hydrogen, bringing it to a pressure level of 3 bar. The initial filling was carried out using hydrogen delivered by trailer.
A key first customer of Nowega’ s hydrogen network is RWE Generation’ s 300 MW electrolysis plant in Lingen, which is expected to start producing green hydrogen from renewable electricity this year. In the second half of the year, the network will be extended further south. By then, ongoing construction work for the transport of hydrogen on the joint pipeline of Essen-based transmission system operator OGE and Nowega between Bad Bentheim and Legden in the Münsterland region is expected to be completed. Additional connections will branch off from this line, including one to the hydrogen storage facility in Epe, an existing link to the Marl chemical park, and pipelines connecting industrial customers and an import route from the Netherlands.
Nowega commissions first 55 km of its hydrogen network in Germany German transmission system operator Nowega has commissioned the first section
6 Hydrogen Tech World | Issue 21 | April 2025