Industrial gas distributor CGI Gases has partnered with Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) to develop a $60m hydrogen plant in Massillon, Ohio, with a production capacity of up to five tonnes per day.
“The new facility will be the first low-carbon hydrogen plant in Ohio, and we hope to have it up and running in 2026,” Sunny Punj, Chief Operations Officer at CGI Gases, tells gasworld. “Ohio is a big market for CGI Gases, and it ticked a lot of B&W’s boxes too. Plus, it has a growing mobility market. It will be great to be a first mover there.”
Once operational, the plant will utilise B&W’s BrightLoop™ technology. With the ability to use a range of feedstocks including coal, biomass and waste fuels, the BrightLoop™ technology features a chemical looping process to produce hydrogen. The system also isolates CO2 to enable storage and sequestration.
Punj explains that the hydrogen produced will be low-carbon intensity, fuel cell-grade, making it suitable for most applications, including transportation, power generation, industrial processing, and heating. The Massillon plant’s anticipated carbon intensity score of .45 kg of CO2/kg hydrogen places its output at the cleanest category level for hydrogen, he adds.
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