Air Liquide to provide H₂ for TotalEnergies biofuels plant

TotalEnergies has selected Air Liquide to provide hydrogen for its biorefinery in La Méde, France. The $84 million plant, which Air Liquide will operate on the TotalEnergy site, will anaerobically digest waste biomass from the refinery to create methane. It will then use steam methane reformation to convert the biomethane into 25,000 metric tons (t) of H₂ per year. A press release announcing the deal does not mention any plans to capture the CO₂ by-product of methane reformation, but it does say that switching to biogenic H₂ will reduce overall CO₂ emissions at the site by 130,000 t per year.