MADRID, 1 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Urbas has signed a FEED (‘Front-end engineering design’) consultancy and engineering design contract with the British multinational Atome for its new plant in Paraguay for the large-scale production of green hydrogen and ammonia from clean energy sources.
This new plant will be located in Villeta, 35 kilometers from Asunción, adjacent to the Paraguay River, and will become the largest green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Latin America based on one hundred percent renewable energy.
It will have an installed capacity of 120 MW for the daily production of 50 tons of hydrogen and 300 tons of ammonia in a liquid state, ready to be transported and marketed, as reported by the company specialized in sustainable infrastructure and building, real estate development, and renewable energy.
The Villeta plant will use renewable energy from the Itaipu hydroelectric plant, the second largest hydroelectric plant in the world, within the framework of the connection and supply agreement signed by Atome with the National Electricity Administration (Ande).
The Atome FEED contract has been awarded to the consortium formed by Urbas and his engineering company Ingeser in collaboration with the Swiss company Casale.
Specifically, Urbas will be responsible for the study, consultancy, design and basic detailed engineering work for the plant, and analysis and projections of Capex and Opex, as well as the study of performance and production indicators, which will allow evaluating the appropriate technologies for the electrolysing unit, and the cost of civil works and electromechanical assembly for the construction of the plant.
The objective is to complete the FEED study in the second quarter of 2023, which will allow Atome to quickly address the final investment decision (FID) to, foreseeably, have the plant fully operational in the first half of 2025.
“At Urbas we are very pleased to have been selected by Atome to carry out the front-end engineering work for this emblematic project for Paraguay and all of Latin America”, stressed the president and CEO of Urbas, Juan Antonio Acedo.
