1 – Wind turbine
HIF: The Siemens Gamesa wind turbine has a capacity of 3.4 MW and a total height of 150 meters. The blades are 65m meters long and the tower is 84m meters high. Strong and constant winds make Magallanes one of the best locations in the world for production of hydrogen and derivatives.
At the planned location of the pilot plant in Chile, a wind turbine runs at full load for an average of 270 days a year. In Germany, on the other hand, the same wind turbine with the same investment only runs at full load on around 66 days a year due to the geographical and meteorological conditions. At 74 percent, the utilization rate of the wind turbine in Chile is therefore four times higher than in Germany at 18 percent.
2 – Methanol to Gasoline Plant
HIF: The raw methanol is distilled to lower the water content from 36% to 4%. Refrined mathanol enters the fluidized bed reator, where dehydration reactions glue the carbon atoms from the methanol together to form longer hydrocarbon chains, known as raw gasoline. The gasoline goes through a stabilization and fractioning process to obtain the final product: a 93 octane gasoline, chemically equivilant to conventional gasoline.
3 – Water storage tank
HIF: This green tank stores unprocessed water. Only 280 l/h of water is consumed in the electrolysis process. Over 80% of the capacity of the tank is required to fire fighting purposes.
4 – Electrolyser
HIF: The electrolyser uses the renewable energy produced by the wind turbine to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. This process is called „electrolysis“.
