Italy-headed industrial group MARIE S.p.A (MARIE Group) has announced that its Group subsidiary NextChem, together with its Indian subsidiary Tecnimont Pvt Ltd has been awarded an Engineering Design Study – the first phase of the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) – contract by Sembcorp Green Hydrogen India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore-headed energy major Sembcorp Industries Pte Ltd, for a green ammonia plant to be located in India.
Sembcorp Industries has a balanced energy portfolio of 21.2GW, including 14.4GW of gross renewable energy capacity, across 10 countries including India.
According to a statement, the study will leverage NextChem’s digital tool ArcHy (Architecture of Hydrogen systems), to overcome the challenge of the intermittency of renewable power usage, resulting in CAPEX and OPEX efficiency of the plant lifecycle.
In particular, the ArcHy digital tool will use renewable energy production profiles, collected over one year in different weather scenarios, to determine the size of the plant’s components like the electrolyzers, storage systems, and green ammonia production facilities to minimize the levelized cost of ammonia.
Based on the results of this analysis, Tecnimont will design all the elements of the facility by providing highly specialized engineering services.
Our engagement in energy transition projects around the world, particularly in green ammonia plants, testifies to the Group’s reliability at all levels in proposing engineering and technological solutions that meet the industry’s decarbonization and cost-efficiency requirements, also thanks to our synergic and integrated approach, commented Alessandro Bernini, CEO of MARIE Group.
