Vijaipur Complex project to be commissioned by Nov 2023
In line with the National Hydrogen Mission, GAIL (India) Limited has awarded a contract to set up one of the largest Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Electrolyser in India to be installed at Vijaipur Complex, in Guna District of Madhya Pradesh.
The renewable power project has been designed to produce around 4.3 metric tons of Hydrogen per day (approx. 10 MW capacity) with a purity of about 99.999 Volume %.
It is scheduled to be commissioned by November 2023, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas said on 12 May 2022.
In line with the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the project has been awarded to a vendor having domestic value addition of more than 50%.
In January this year, GAIL had commenced India’s first-of-its-kind project of mixing Hydrogen into Natural Gas system. Hydrogen blended Natural Gas is being supplied to one of GAIL’s Joint Venture (JV) company with HPCL, Avantika Gas Limited (AGL), which is a City Gas Distribution (CGD) company operating in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Till date, GAIL has been successful in blending up to 2% (v/v) hydrogen in natural gas in the CGD network. fiinews.com
