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Proposals for the world's first zero carbon industrial cluster in the Humber region received a boost this week after Phillips 66, Uniper, and Vitol-owned power plant VPI Immingham entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will see them co-operate to advance plans to build a hybrid carbon capture and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen production facility in the region by the mid-2020s.
The companies said on Tuesday that they plan to install post-combustion carbon capture technologies on two of the three gas-powered generators at the VPI Immingham combined heat and power (CHP) plant and selected processing units at the Humber and Lindsay refineries, which are owned by Phillips 66 and Total.
Then in a second phase of the 'Humber Zero' project, the partners plan to develop a hydrogen hub that would produce hydrogen to serve the third generator and local industry. The facility could produce hydrogen using renewable energy, otherwise known as a green hydrogen, as well as blue hydrogen that is produced from natural gas and can be subsequently decarbonised using carbon capture systems.
The agreement was welcomed by Humber Zero project director Jonathan Briggs, who hailed it as a further step forward for the wide-ranging plans. "Humber Zero delivers a world scale decarbonisation project built around one of the UK's most efficient generating assets and an industrial hub in Immingham," he said. "It can establish the foundation for a gateway to decarbonise the wider Humber, bringing new industries, sectors and jobs to the region."
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