Imagine a giant battery that doesn't just store power, but turns it into a clean gas called hydrogen using water and electricity. This project is building one of the biggest versions of this setup in Southeast Europe, right inside a massive oil refinery. Instead of wasting the heat created during the process, they are capturing it to power other parts of the plant, like recycling heat in a home to warm up the water.
Industrial facilities, particularly refineries, struggle to decarbonize due to the high cost and technical difficulty of replacing fossil-fuel hydrogen with renewable alternatives at scale.
A 30 MW pressurized alkaline electrolysis plant integrated with waste heat recovery (ORC), a digital twin, and an energy management system.
If you are a refinery operator dealing with high carbon emissions from traditional hydrogen production — this project developed a 30 MW electrolysis facility that replaces fossil-fuel hydrogen with green hydrogen.
If you are an energy company dealing with unstable power grids and wasted renewable energy — this project developed a system coupling 30 MW electrolysis with electricity storage to stabilize supply and demand.
If you are a chemical plant dealing with inefficient byproduct management — this project developed a method for the valorization of produced oxygen to be used in existing refinery operations.
The project focuses on achieving the lowest possible cost by using industrial symbiosis and waste heat recovery. Based on available project data, it evaluates the Levelized Cost of Hydrogen (LCOH) as a key criterion for vendor selection.
The project is implementing a 30 MW pressurized alkaline electrolyzer. This is described as a first-of-its-kind scale for Southeastern Europe.
Based on available project data, the hardware is provided as a turn-key solution by METACON AB, though the integration and symbiotic processes are developed by the consortium.
The facility is integrated into the Corinth Refinery, utilizing a digital twin, an energy management system, and an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for waste heat recovery.
The facility is intended to be operated for at least 2 years under commercial conditions.
The consortium is heavily industry-driven, with 8 industrial partners (62% ratio) and 5 SMEs, indicating a strong focus on commercial viability rather than pure research. Led by a major refinery operator (Motor Oil Hellas), the group spans 7 countries, combining the practical needs of a large-scale industrial complex with the technical expertise of 3 research organizations and 1 university.
Contact Motor Oil (Hellas) Diilistiria Korinthou A.E. regarding industrial hydrogen integration.
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