Asahi Kasei Corporation is going to setup one unit of alkaline water electrolysis H2 generator (maximum output of 30Nm3) at H2 USER CENTER “H2 Herten” located in Herten of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany in the spring of 2018 in order to implement the verification of a CO2-free H2 generation using wind power.


Although it is the company’s first attempt to generate using a renewable energy, the company intends to ascertain followability to changing power or other factors taking about one year, and wishes to work it out for appealing the performance of product to the European companies doing the Power to Gas business. In the H2 USER CENTER where the unit is installed this time, they are dong endurance test of H2 related equipment and also verifying the Power to Gas effects. The H2 generator aiming for the establishment of sales system by March 2018 has a maximum production capability of 2000Nm3/h at 10MW.

In terms of equipment alone, the output of H2 will be the largest in the world. Asahi Kasei had been making R&D activities until last year as seen in the verification of a ten thousand-hour operation and durability using a simulating electricity presuming a renewable energy in the premises of Yokohama Plant of Chiyoda Corporation.

The company understands that Europe is a large prospective market for the time being as it is focusing on the reduction of carbon dioxide. In October 2017 Asahi Kasei opened an R&D center in Dormagen City of the same German province to collect information relating to environments and energy-related matters.

In Europe the active development of H2 generators of the MW class is on the way and the demand for the utilization mainly in the Power to Gas field is increasing.