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Chiyoda Announced that The Advanced Hydrogen Energy Chain Association for Technology Development (AHEAD) Achieved a ‘World First’ Milestone of Transporting Hydrogen by Chemical Tanker

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Chiyoda announced that the Advanced Hydrogen Energy Chain Association for Technology Development (AHEAD) achieved a ‘world first’ milestone of transporting hydrogen by Chemical Tanker.

Chiyoda Corporation (Chiyoda) announce that the Advanced Hydrogen Energy Chain Association or Technology Development (AHEAD)has achieved a ‘world first’ milestone of transporting hydrogen, in the form of methylcyclohexane (MCH),overseas using a chemical tanker.

Chiyoda, as an associate member of AHEAD, manufactures MCH from toluene and hydrogen in Brunei Darussalam (Brunei), for transportation to an ENEOS oil refinery in Japan, using facilities constructed in Brunei by AHEAD, as part of their global hydrogen supply chain demonstration project, subsidized by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and completed in December 2020.

ENEOS uses the MCH for an ongoing demonstration project, supported by the Consortium for Resilient Oil Supply System (CROS). The first chemical tanker arrived at the refinery receiving facility on 4 February 2022, via a transit port in Singapore where it was stored in existing outdoor storage tanks for several months before being loaded.

The MCH will be fed into the refinery, which has a dehydrogenation function, to confirm the impact on its operation and to conduct a full-scale study of the quantity of MCH used. Thanks for staying up to date with Hydrogen Central.

This achievement demonstrates the viable long-term storage and transportation of hydrogen in the form of MCH on a global scale, essential for practical hydrogen transportation, and demonstrated that new capital investment is not necessarily a requirement as existing facilities can be used.

An international supply chain that unleashes hydrogen’s potential as a clean global energy solution, and the realization of a decarbonized society,is now a step closer. AHEAD plans to increase production of MCH in Brunei for supply to ENEOS by chemical tankers until October 2022.

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