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JGC Holdings Corporation, Kubota Corporation, and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC) jointly submitted an application for a New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) “Development of Technologies for Building a Competitive Hydrogen Supply Chain” project and the application was selected. The project involves the “research and development of large-scale external thermal ammonia decomposition hydrogen production technology,” in which hydrogen will be obtained from the thermal decomposition of imported ammonia, in anticipation of participation in a large-scale hydrogen production project with an annual output of 110,000 tonnes. The research and development aims to optimize the entire process, from the gasification of imported liquid ammonia to the thermal decomposition of preheated ammonia, and the refining of the cracked gases to manufacture purified hydrogen. JGC Holdings will develop the cracking furnace and the entire process as well as provide overall supervision for the demonstration, while Kubota will research and develop ammonia cracking tubes. TNSC will research and develop hydrogen purification systems. In this way, the three companies will contribute to the development of technology for the large-scale production of hydrogen, an essential element for realizing a carbon neutral society.

Process flow of the R&D and cracking furnace concept image