SIAD Macchine Impianti (SIAD MI) will provide a hydrogen compressor to Paul Wurth, an engineering company in Luxembourg, for a large-scale, multi-megawatt, high-temperature electrolyzer. The compressor will be integrated in the hydrogen processing unit, designed, and manufactured by Paul Wurth, as part of the MULTIPLHY project.
Intended to cover the needs of the Neste biorefinery in Rotterdam, the MULTIPLHY project will allow renewable hydrogen production to replace grey hydrogen. The MULTIPLHY project will install, integrate, and operate the world’s first high-temperature electrolyzer (HTE) system in multi-megawatt-scale (~2.4 MW), at a biofuels refinery in Rotterdam to produce hydrogen (≥ 60 kg/h) for the refinery’s processes.
The compressor developed by SIAD MI is suitable for automatically managing hydrogen at low pressures (0 to 33 bar). The main feature of the unit developed for the project concerns the oil-free compression of hydrogen, which comes from the electrolysis process mixed with varying percentages of water vapor. The compressor is designed to follow the variable operation of the electrolyzer.
