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Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is targeting spring 2029 completion of an 18 tonne per day grey liquid hydrogen (LH2) facility in Kanagawa, Japan, to supply its under-construction terminal.
The plant will supply hydrogen produced by the steam methane reforming (SMR) of city gas via pipeline to KHI’s large-scale LH2 and bunkering site planned for Ogishima by 2030.
KHI did not suggest that any form of carbon capture will be used by the new plant.
The company said the new plant would support Japan’s domestic hydrogen supply base, but did not disclose specific use cases.
The LH2 terminal will be operated by KHI-owned Japan Hydrogen Energy (JHE), is funded by Japan’s ¥2.8 trillion ($17.6bn) New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization’s (NEDO) Green Innovation Fund.
Japan has been accelerating efforts to strengthen its hydrogen supply chain, including via imports from overseas hydrogen producers.
KHI’s Ogishima terminal will be serviced by the company’s planned 40,000m3 liquified hydrogen carrier vessel, which is set to be some 30 times larger than the company’s Suiso Frontier, which completed LH2 exports from Australia to Japan in 2022.
While proponents say liquid hydrogen offers efficiency advantages over carriers like ammonia, critics argue that transporting it over long distances is technically complex, inefficient, and costly due to the extremely low temperatures required (-253 ºC).
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