With our strong competence for electrochemical processes, global experience in turnkey and EPC and high competence in best-cost manufacturing over more than 170 years of experience, ANDRITZ provides the perfect setup required to deliver a safe, reliable and efficient hydrogen plant for your business.
ANDRITZ combines worldwide plant building experience as an EPC company, including design & engineering, civil and installation services in four core business areas – Pulp & Paper, Metals, Hydro and Separation.
Therefore, leveraging our extensive experience in EPC and turnkey projects, ANDRITZ is well-positioned to execute Green Hydrogen projects in targeted markets. We have the expertise to develop hydrogen plants based on AEL and PEM technologies, in addition to providing core equipment and associated services.
Whether it's planning, development, or calculations, ANDRITZ offers comprehensive support and guidance to our customers right from the initial stages. Our services cover a wide range of needs, offering the front-end loading design packages, from studies/conceptual engineering and basic engineering for EPC projects.
The electrolysis system is the group of components that ensures operation of the electrolysis stack, which is the central element in which water is split into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity. ANDRITZ is technology open regarding electrolyzers. Currently, we are on the market with AEL (Alkaline Electrolysis) and entering the market with PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane).
ANDRITZ Green Hydrogen unique selling proposition (USPs):
The first industrial electrolyzers were large unpressurized alkaline systems (AEL) installed in Rjukan, Norway, in 1929. The power was supplied by a hydropower station with an initial capacity of 108 MW (established in 1908 – the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world at the time). The purpose of the electrolyzers was to provide hydrogen for a Haber Bosch plant producing ammonia fertilizer. Similar installations followed, mostly in connection with hydropower (Aswan in Egypt in the 1960s, Kariba in Zimbabwe in the 1970s, Cuzco in Peru, and many more). Some of them were in operation until the late 1990s and even early 2000s.
The ANDRITZ Metals electrochemical history is based on development of the so-called GRAVITEL cell for electro-galvanizing of steel around 30 years ago. At that time, we were the first to use iridium coating on the anode, which is used in the PEM (proton exchange membrane) stack as well today. Moreover, hydrogen is produced in our electro-galvanizing process as a by-product.
Hydrogen touchpoints along ANDRITZ Business Areas
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