China’s carbon neutral goal: Hitachi to build world’s biggest plant in Shaanxi to mix carbon dioxide, hydrogen into methane

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• Plant is one of 14 new projects announced during the Japan-China Energy Conservation and Environment Comprehensive Forum
• Hitachi Zosen will deploy its technology in cooperation with potential partners at Yulin Economic and Technological Development Zone

Hitachi Zosen ‘aims to realise a low-carbon, recycling oriented hydrogen society’ in China through its methanation technology, the company said. Photo: Shutterstock Images



Hitachi Zosen, a Japanese sustainable energy engineering company, will build the world’s largest facility to produce methane from carbon dioxide and hydrogen generated at a coal-based industrial zone in Shaanxi province. The facility, a pilot project, is part of a Sino-Japanese collaboration on carbon reduction.
Osaka-based Hitachi Zosen, a 139-year-old former shipbuilding giant that now focuses on energy from waste, desalination plants engineering and industrial equipment manufacturing, has joined forces with government-mandated Japan Coal Energy Centre, which promotes clean coal consumption, for the project.
“Hitachi Zosen aims to realise a low-carbon, recycling oriented hydrogen society in China through the implementation of our methanation technology,” a spokesperson said. “Methane has almost the same composition as natural gas and can be used as an alternative to fossil fuels.”

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Hitachi Zosen will build the world’s largest facility to produce methane from carbon dioxide and hydrogen generated at a coal-based industrial zone in Shaanxi province.

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[Place Of Space]

Japanese are really genius at chemicals and new materials industry.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Japanese are really genius at chemicals and new materials industry.

Japanese are really genius at chemicals and new materials industry.

They are pretty good but we compete with them directly. Modern chemistry is mostly China, Germany, Japan and US.

This is a classic Sabatier reaction, typically it results in zero net reduction of CO2 because hydrogen is produced from fossil fuel too. It will only decrease CO2 if no CO2 was used to produce hydrogen.

 

[TaiShang]

I though Japan was leaving China for !ncredible !ndia...

 

[Han-Tang]

cooperation brings development.

 

[bshifter]

Great development. Win-win for everybody.