Titan to build world’s biggest bio-LNG plant

Dutch LNG and liquified biomethane (LBM) bunker supplier Titan has set out to build and operate a 200,000 mt/year capacity bio-LNG plant in Amsterdam.

PHOTO: Model of Titan and BioValue's LBM production plant in the Port of Amsterdam. Titan

“The LBM will substitute fossil fuels, avoiding about a million tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions per year, equal to the annual emissions of about 25% of all diesel cars in the Netherlands,” Titan claims.

Linde Engineering help engineer the LBM plant, and Dutch biogas producer BioValue will build a separate plant next to this LBM plant to produce biogas. Additional biogas will flow in via existing gas pipes from other production sites in Europe.

Biogas is largely made up of methane and CO2. To produce the LBM, methane will be separated from the CO2 and liquified.

Titan says the remaining CO2 could be combined with green hydrogen to produce synthetic e-methane as a separate alternative fuel. This fits with Amsterdam’s vision of becoming a hydrogen hub, it says.

The partners expect the LBM production plant to be up and running by 2025, and to supply vessels and trucks.

By Erik Hoffmann

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