With electricity making up most hydrogen production costs, enhancing energy efficiency is key. ABB technologies contribute to energy-efficient, future-proof plants that help reduce initial investments. Electrification, automation and digitalization help hydrogen plants optimize operations, increase efficiencies and cut operational costs. ABB’s instrumentation and analysis solutions ensure tight control of the hydrogen production process and related emissions. Leveraging data from existing operations is another way for companies to maximize value. To support this, ABB has developed the ABB Ability™ Genix Industrial Analytics and AI suite to combine data from multiple sources, and provide analytics that help customers better manage assets and operations. And because the greenest energy is the energy you don’t use, solutions like ABB Ability™ Energy Management OPTIMAX^® ensure that hydrogen operations run in the most efficient way possible.

Among many projects, ABB is working with Swiss utility Axpo to develop modular green hydrogen production plants in Italy, with the goal of generating an optimum operating model for hydrogen production.

Teaming with Lhyfe, a French producer and supplier of green hydrogen, ABB is supplying their first production site with its Freelance distributed control system and the ABB Ability™ Manufacturing Operations Management platform. The integrated distributed control system with a common and centralized database will reduce development time and simplify automation of the production.