MAN compressor technology set for Louisiana clean energy complex

The complex will produce more than 750 million standard ft³/d of blue hydrogen for Air Products’ customers, which will be transported along a 700+ miles pipeline on the US Gulf Coast, as well as producing blue ammonia for global hydrogen markets such as the transportation and mobility sectors. The facility will also capture and permanently store approximately 95% of its CO₂ emissions – over 5 million tpy – equivalent to the annual CO₂ emissions from more than 1 million passenger cars.

MAN’s air-compressor trains will be deployed at the core of Air Products’ air-separation unit, where air will be separated into its primary constituents of oxygen and nitrogen. Both gases are needed for the production of hydrogen and ammonia.

MAN’s scope of work for Air Products’ blue hydrogen energy complex comprises two main air-compressor trains – each equipped with a single shaft compressor type, RIKT 160-3. It further includes two booster air-compressor trains – each with an integrally geared compressor type, RG 63-6 – as well as two gaseous nitrogen compressor trains – each with an integrally geared compressor type, RG 45-5. All of the trains will be electrically driven.

The main air-compressor trains have three centrifugal stages and deliver more than 600,000 Nm³/h of air. The booster compressors are integrally geared types and have six air and five nitrogen stages, all with external intercoolers.

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