Located at MOL’s Százhalombatta refinery in Hungary, the 10 MW facility is claimed to be the largest green hydrogen plant in Central and Eastern Europe.
The plant is expected to produce 1,600 tonnes of clean, carbon-neutral green hydrogen per year which will be used for fuel production.
Százhalombatta refinery of MOL, a 10-megawatt capacity green hydrogen plant, the largest in Central and Eastern Europe has started producing.
The facility produces 1,600 tonnes of clean, carbon-neutral green hydrogen per year which is used for fuel production, reducing the Danube Refinery's carbon dioxide emissions by 25 000 tonnes, as much as the annual carbon dioxide emissions of roughly 5400 typical cars.
MOL Group handed over its new Százhalombatta plant in April, where it produces around 1,600 tonnes of clean, carbon-neutral green hydrogen per year with a 10-megawatt electrolysis unit created by Plug Power.
Plug Power's electrolysis equipment uses electricity from renewable sources to break down water into hydrogen and oxygen.
This means that no polluting by-products are generated and, in fact, the plant produces 8-9 tonnes of pure oxygen per tonne of hydrogen.
The US company has offered MOL an innovative and reliable technology: the hydrogen generators, optimized to produce pure hydrogen, have almost 50 years of operational experience.
The 22 million-euro new plant will reduce the carbon footprint of the Danube Refinery by more than 25,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. The new technology will gradually replace the natural gas-based production process, which currently accounts for one sixth of MOL Group's total carbon dioxide emissions.