French industrial gas supplier Air Liquide plans to invest more than EUR 130m in a new facility to produce low-carbon hydrogen.

The setup will utilize biogas from TotalEnergies’ Grandpuits biofuel refinery to produce hydrogen, mainly for use in making sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the companies inform in a joint press statement.

At full capacity, the facility will be able to produce 20,000 tonnes of H₂ annually. Moreover, the plant will be partially powered by renewable energy in the form of residual biogas from Grandpuits.

A carbon capture system will also be integrated to catch 110,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year.

”Combined with the production of low-carbon hydrogen and the capture of CO₂, this project contributes to TotalEnergies’ ambition to decarbonize all of the hydrogen used by its European refineries by 2030,” writes TotalEnergies President, Refining & Chemicals Bernard Pinatel.

The French oil and gas supermajor’s SAF production uses biofuel sourced from waste and byproducts.

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