CONVEY is
… the establishment and demonstration of a green hydrogen closed-loop circular ecosystem in the Port of Hirtshals, Northern Denmark.
For this purpose, the CONVEY consortium has developed an innovative, economically viable and renewable energy system infrastructure where locally sourced renewable electricity will be used to produce green hydrogen.
CONVEY anchors efficient downstream management of both hydrogen and electrolysis’ by-products, i.e. excess heat, oxygen, and will be enabled by an integrated and synergetic sector coupling, involving the greater value chain of the Port in Hirtshals.
Facts about CONVEY
Demonstrates
… an integrated green hydrogen ecosystem at the Port of Hirtshals in Denmark.
Will be established
… between 2024-2028 – and after that scaled up.
Partners are
… Port of Hirtshals, Greenport North, Norwegian Hydrogen, Vireon Denmark, Hirtshals Transport Center, Vendelbo Spedition, Biomega, Onnest, Next Consult, VTT and Hydrogen Valley.
Total cost
… is 22 mio Euro, which is financed by the partners (13 mio Euro) and a grant from the Clean Hydrogen partnership under Horizon Europe (9 mio Euro).
Showcasing green hydrogen’s role in sector integration and circular economy
CONVEY will demonstrate green hydrogen as a key enabling technology for coupling several sectors and building synergies among them, leading to the efficient use of both hydrogen and its by-products within the same ecosystem, under a circular economy and closed-loop concept. The renewable energy produced in excess from Port of Hirtshals’ onshore wind power will be converted into green hydrogen, to flexibly store and steadily channel it to a wide range of end-users, joining the CONVEY consortium as use-cases for the provision of both hydrogen and its by-products across the following sectors:
Logistics/road transport
One off-take to CONVEY is mobility. Here, a new Hydrogen fuelling station will be built at Hirtshals Transport Center facilities, and 2 trucks will be entirely operated via green hydrogen as an energy vector.
Aquaculture
In a second path to CONVEY off-take, both electrolysis by-products, oxygen and heat, will be required for increasing productivity of the fish brewing (and health) as well as powering, respectively, the overall food production process (i.e. food grade nutrition, nutrients and nutraceuticals from marine biomass) with increased access to marine nutrition. In addition, utilizing heat and oxygen in salmon farming will be studied with scaleup stakeholder Danish Salmon.
Food industry
Third industry off-take path involves using hydrogen for food processing activities such as transforming fresh salmon parts into high value, food grade, hydrolysed salmon proteins and oils for the premium food and petfood, health and nutrition sectors. In addition, expansion of the use of green hydrogen is analysed together with scale-up stakeholder Fynbo Foods, a Danish sustainable fruit and vegetable-based food producer.
The CONVEY Valley
The CONVEY valley mainly constitutes of the renewable (wind) energy production site at the port that powers the 5MW hydrogen production (and intermediate storage) facility, the pipeline infrastructure for fast and climate-friendly H2 and O2 distribution, and last but not least the initial three offtakers, comprising road transport logistics and food industry for primary production through aquaculture.
The CONVEY
Valley
