Mid West Clean Energy Project Feasibility Study
Deliverable 2 - Low-cost: Cost competitive Clean Ammonia
Cliff Head CCS enables cost competitive industrial scale Blue Hydrogen production
Blue hydrogen production only possible with direct/integrated CCS
Production capacity of Blue Hydrogen with 98% of CO2 capture
Produced through proven and well established, scalable technologies
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Blue Hydrogen production has been in commercial operation since 1982
Hydrogen from natural gas is the primary input for vast majority of ammonia
• 95% of 190mmtpa of global ammonia production of hydrogen from natural gas
Ammonia from blue hydrogen is both a low cost and clean energy source
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Blue hydrogen and ammonia expected to be lowest-cost clean option 1
Excellent solution for transport and supply of hydrogen
• Ammonia excellent "vector" and lowest cost form of H2 transport and supply
Established market and supply chain
Well established, large-scale production and global supply chain
Clean Ammonia is a CO2-free energy source
Proven CO2-free fuel can be produced from either Blue or Green Hydrogen
Pilot
Energy
Levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH) in the range of A$1.85 to A$2.13
leveraging the Cliff Head CCS
LCOH (AUD/kg)
5.62
Mid West Clean Energy
Project With Cliff Head CCS
3.11
2.13
1.85
1.4
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Levelized cost of ammonia (LCOA) in the range of A$370 to A$400 per
tonne, leveraging CCS and renewables
LCOA (AUD/tonne)
1,890 1,890
1,369
1,000
400
300
371
398
Sources
1. Global CCS Institute Blue Hydrogen Report April 2021. Figure 6 (RHS of slide) taken from the same report.
2. CE Delft Feasibility Study into blue hydrogen July 2018 estimates that blue hydrogen production with 95% direct/integrated carbon capture and storage will
produce 0.64/kg of CO2 process emissions per kg of hydrogen produced resulting in total annual CO2 process emissions of ~25.6 kTonnes of CO2
3. Global CCS Institute 2021
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Australia-Korea Business Council Critical Minerals and New Energy Forum | Sydney 30 October 2023
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Blue Green Green Market Market
(high): (low) (high) (low) (high) Price Price
(3/22) (3/22)
Sources: SP Global, Cost, logistics offer "blue" hydrogen market advantages over "green"
alternative 19 March 2020 and Pilot Feasibility Study ASX release 28 March 2022View entire presentation