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Green hydrogen’s growing share in chemical production

The chemical industry requires enormous amounts of hydrogen for a wide range of products and processes. In the final part of pv magazine‘s Renewables 24/7 series, we head to the world’s largest chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, BASF and Siemens Energy are demonstrating how to integrate a green electricity-powered electrolyzer into a massive industrial complex.
Jochen Siemer
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Jochen Siemer
Operation of this massive electrolyzer must be continuously adjusted to various supply and demand parameters. | Image: BASF SE

It’s often said that if a major industrialized economy like Germany’s could achieve 24/7 renewable energy supply, so can anywhere else. There’s hardly a better place to understand where this idea comes from than at BASF’s headquarters and the world’s largest contiguous chemical production site in Ludwigshafen. A facility like this, with around 33,000 employees …

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