Prince Rupert port facility preparing to handle large rail shipments of liquid ammonia
Hydrogen was in the news last week when the B.C. government announced an agreement with the Japanese Organization for Metals and Energy Security, which paves the way for province to export new sources of low-carbon energy.
Matthew Klippenstein, executive director of Hydrogen BC, a regional branch of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association says Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are the most likely buyers of products made at the plant. They each have large populations and seek to replace coal as more climate-friendly fuel.
Asian countries are also going ahead with designing nuclear plants to produce their own electricity but Klippenstein said those projects take many years to build and there’s a need to find an immediate source of fuel that burns without emissions. He expects construction of the McLeod Lake plant would be contingent on companies like Mitsubishi signing a 20-year agreement to buy the products.
Hydrogen is earth’s lightest element and can’t be compressed in sufficient quantities to make it feasible to ship as a gas, so it’s converted to liquid ammonia, made using extremely high pressure to force a chemical reaction that blends nitrogen from the atmosphere with hydrogen from natural gas.
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