The new offering leverages KBR’s experience in capacity scale-up and integrates its implemented designs with advanced digital technologies to provide owners the reliability, flexibility and scale required to deliver clean ammonia and hydrogen demands for the energy transition.

Doug Kelly, KBR president of Technology, said, “Given the projected volumes for green hydrogen and ammonia, capacity scale will play a defining role in helping owners implement projects with favourable economics, and we are confident mega plants will allow our clients to realise attractive returns on their low-carbon hydrogen investments.”

Ammonia is increasingly viewed as a primary enabler of a renewable hydrogen energy economy. Global demand for clean ammonia is projected to grow exponentially based on anticipated use in power generation and marine transport, making larger production facilities increasingly attractive.

KBR is a leader in ammonia technology, with around 50% share of licensed capacity. The company holds industry records for the largest capacity plants with a single converter, best energy efficiency and longest runs without shutdowns.

KBR’s green ammonia process (K-GreeN®) is zero carbon-emission ammonia, produced via electrolysis of water using renewable electricity. It achieves zero greenhouse gas emissions by combining ammonia synthesis plant reliabilit, with lower energy consumption at a lower capital cost, using modern electrolysis and air separation sections.

It recently added Nuclear Waste Services, which is, like Sellafield Ltd, a subsidiary of the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, as a client, and is now providing expert project, program and portfolio management for a future geological disposal facility. The facility will support safe, sustainable waste disposal for future nuclear projects in the UK.

It was the first to bring a 6,000 MPTD clean ammonia design to the market, and this new offering is a continuation of that innovation to deliver a net-zero hydrogen energy future. Since 1943, it has licensed, engineered or constructed 252 grassroots ammonia plants worldwide.