The Linde Group recently announced that it has signed a contract with BASF to construct a large hydrogen plant for their facility in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Linde will be handling the basic and detail engineering and materials procurement for this project as well as installation and commissioning. The turn-key hydrogen plant is scheduled to go into operation in mid-September 2009.
Linde already has built oxygen and ethylene production plants at the Ludwigshafen facility, but this is the first hydrogen plant that Linde supplies to BASF. When the new plant goes into operation, it will increase the facility's total hydrogen capacity by 50,000 Nm³/h. The highly purified hydrogen will be fed into the BASF internal pipeline network.
"This project once again demonstrates our outstanding expertise and competitiveness in the area of hydrogen technology," said Dr. Aldo Belloni, member of the Executive Board of Linde.
