A new joint venture between AFC Energy and Industrial Chemicals Group will use AFC Energy’s proprietary ammonia cracking technology to produce and deliver high purity hydrogen to the UK market at competitive prices.
After installation by early 2027, the pilot system will provide power at a large industrial electricity consumer facility. The pair then aim to scale and rollout ammonia-to-power solutions across Taiwan’s significant high-tech and manufacturing sector.
Ammonigy, Heraeus Precious Metals and the Technical University of Darmstadt have partnered to demonstrate operations using cracked ammonia fuel in a four-stroke MAN test engine. The performance and efficiency of the test engine when running on ammonia-hydrogen fuel was comparable to natural gas operations, and use of an exhaust aftertreatment system reduced potentially harmful nitrogen-based emissions to near-zero levels.
Ammonia cracking tech provider Ammonigy and leading German brick manufacturer Juwö Poroton led the project, successfully demonstrating a pilot-sized brick kiln that runs on cracked ammonia fuel gas. The cracked ammonia-fired bricks were virtually “indistinguishable from bricks fired with natural gas”.
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs will deploy Technip Energies’ proprietary ammonia cracking technology onboard its under-development mobile ammonia storage, transportation and transportation vessel.
A demonstration scale ammonia cracker plant is under construction in Germany as part of a partnership between thyssenkrupp Uhde and Uniper. The plant, expected to be commissioned by the end of 2026, will handle about 28 tonnes per day of ammonia, and serve as a test case for the planned hydrogen import terminal at the port of Wilhelmshaven, northwestern Germany.
Duiker Clean Technologies will construct and operate an industrial-scale pilot plant for its ammonia cracking technology in the Netherlands, thanks to government and EU funding.
Amogy, GS Engineering & Construction, HD Hyundai Infracore, and the city of Pohang will collaborate to deploy a 1 MW ammonia-powered distributed power generation system in 2026, scaling up to a commercial, 40 MW system by 2028-29.
The concept design can deliver up to 210,000 tons of pipeline-quality hydrogen per year from ammonia imports, and will feature in a number of projects in Germany.