LSB Industries and Bloom Energy to install SOEC hydrogen plant
Green hydrogen from Bloom’s electrolyzer is expected to produce 13k tonnes/year of clean ammonia.
Bloom Energy and LSB Industries, Inc. plans to install a 10 MW solid oxide electrolyzer at LSB’s Pryor, Oklahoma facility.
The project is expected to generate green hydrogen that will contribute to the synthesis of approximately 13,000 metric tons of zero-carbon ammonia per year.
Operating at superior efficiencies compared to PEM and alkaline electrolyzer technologies, Bloom Energy’s solid oxide electrolyzer is uniquely positioned to unlock clean, low-cost hydrogen at the scale needed for a net-zero economy. Bloom Energy’s high-temperature electrolyzer requires less energy to generate hydrogen than low-temperature electrolyzers on the market today. When integrated with the most energy-efficient high-temperature processes like ammonia synthesis, which produces extra heat energy, Bloom’s electrolyzer is up to 30-40% more efficient than competing electrolyzer technologies, resulting in the lowest cost hydrogen for end customer use.
With electricity accounting for up to 80% of the cost of hydrogen production through electrolysis, solid oxide electrolysis at scale offers a viable, cost-accessible pathway to hydrogen production. Further, clean hydrogen produced at LSB’s facility may qualify for federal incentive programs, such as those currently under evaluation by Congress.
The 10 MW solid oxide electrolyzer installation – which will contribute to making LSB’s Pryor facility the largest green ammonia production site in North America – will demonstrate the ability of hydrogen to decarbonize ammonia production and other industrial sectors, which are collectively responsible for more than one-third of global energy consumption.
ThyssenKrupp will co-develop the multi-phase project, developing an initial engineering design to convert a small portion of existing conventional (gray) ammonia capacity at LSB’s Pryor facility into green ammonia. Bloom Energy will then install, operate, and maintain the 10 MW electrolyzer at LSB’s Pryor facility, targeting hydrogen production to begin in 2023.
