The PtX plant in Kassø in Aabenraa will soon produce 42,000 tonnes of E-methanol per year. The site is still a construction site, but it is in the final phase, with 120 people working virtually on a field in Southern Jutland. The work, which began in earnest in May 2023, is now taking its final form.
When the plant worth one billion kroner is finished, there will be slightly fewer people working here.
- This involves 30 full-time positions and a number of functions that will be available around the clock, explains project manager Rene Alcaraz Frederiksen at European Energy, showing the core of hydrogen production:
- The electrolyzer here is from Siemens Energy, and it costs 12 million euros. At the time, we felt that Siemens Energy was the only one who could do it.
The PtX process requires large amounts of water, but compared to the needs of agriculture, it is modest.
- We need 100,000 cubic meters of water per year. That may sound like a lot, but in comparison, agriculture in this area uses 700,000 per year, says Rene Alcaraz Frederiksen.
A by-product of PtX is oxygen, and the plant will produce 96,000 tons per year. It will be discharged, as it has not been possible at this time to find a sector-coupling application for the oxygen, such as in fish farming or similar, that is profitable.
The 42,000 tons of E-methanol will leave the plant by truck.
- Trucks will come here and pick up the methanol, which will then be driven to the Port of Aabenraa, where it will be shipped, says Rene Alcaraz Frederiksen about something that will require around 800 trucks per year for the stretch of almost 15 km.
But in the long term there may be a possibility for a pipeline.
- For now we use trucks, as the quantities are too small for a pipeline yet. But there are only six to seven kilometers to the Port of Aabenraa as the crow flies, so that is a possibility in the future, explains Rene Alcaraz Frederiksen.
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