Liquefied Hydrogen Tank Solutions
Stationary LH2 Tanks
Linde Engineering has supplied numerous cryogenic LH2 storage tanks, delivered as customized versions as well as standardized types, all of them meeting the highest quality standards.
Liquefied Hydrogen (LH2) is a key commodity used for a wide range of industrial applications, such as refining hydrocarbon products, steel making, electronics and fertilizer production. Hydrogen plays also an increasingly important role in the global efforts on decarbonization, with LH2 having the highest energy density per mass of all common feeds.
Linde Engineering offers standard stationary bullet type LH2 tanks in vertical and horizontal positions with sizes up to 400 m3.
Our tanks are all complying to the common pressure equipment regulations and codes applicable at the main global markets in the Americas, Europe and Korea.
The applied insulation technologies ensure low boil off and long holding time based on the application and customer needs. High grade cleanliness, e.g. for the electronic industry, can be provided as well.
LH2-Trailer (semi-trailer)
Need to transport the highest possible payloads on road? Our LH2-trailers will do the job to the highest safety and efficiency standards, avoiding boil-off product losses within the desired transport time!
Introduced very successfully in 2023, Linde’s semi-trailer is now present on the main global markets (USA, EU, Korea), helping to speed up the decarbonization efforts there. Derived from the stationary tanks, the MLI technology guarantees holding times of minimum 120 to 200 h, at an evaporation rate of 0.5 to 0.9 % per day and with a max. working pressure ranging from 8.6 to 12.7 bar (125 to 185 psi).
LH2-ISO-Container (HYLICS)
In addition to the LH2-trailer, the LH2-ISO-container allows not only to transport the LH2-product via truck, ship, or train (if requested). It also can operate like a stationary storage vessel by realizing container swapping. Potential use cases are feeding a Hydrogen refuelling station (HRS) or a tank at an industrial consumer site for up to 30 days without losing Hydrogen due to boil off.
Where holding times > 30 days are required, we can offer the so-called long distance LH2-container with an active LIN-shield, by which holding times of 200 days, or more are achievable.
The LH2-container appears typically within a 40 ft ISO stainless steel frame, operates at 12,75 bar / 185 psi and offers a payload of 3.040 kg LH2 @ 10 % ullage or a capacity of 48.4 m3, respectively. Approvals as per ADR, IMDG, US DoT, CSC, TIR and RID (optionally) are given.
Marine Applications of LH2-Systems
Linde Engineering developed and commissioned successfully in 2023 the first ever built LH2-system on board of a ferry operating at a daily schedule along the Norwegian coast. This LH2-system comprises of a bunkering system including an emergency coupling, and a LH2 onboard storage tank system with H2-conditioning for a faultless operation of the fuel cells that provides the electric energy for the ship’s propulsion. The process design data is similar to the ones of the LH2-trailers or containers.
Other topside and below deck LH2-applications are currently under development as per customer needs. This includes also the use of sLH2-pump for quick bunkering and discharge of the LH2.
LH2-Applications for Railroad
LH2 transport and tender tanks for use on trains in the US and EU are being in the design phase yet and will be available around 2026.
The basic design features are like those of the transportable LH2-tanks mentioned above, with typical capacities of 125 m3 / 8.7 metric tons LH2 and holding times of 7 to 30 days. Pumps will be built in to accelerate the tank’s loading and the flow to the consumer on the locomotives.