Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is best known as home to the LSU Tigers, but energy experts will soon recognize it for its low-carbon hydrogen production, which will start two years from now. It will use biomass as a feedstock and produce 10 to 15 tons of carbon-negative hydrogen daily by 2029.
Steam methane reformation—using natural gas—and electrolysis now produce nearly all hydrogen, requiring massive fuel consumption and electricity. However, the Baton Rouge plant has a technique called “chemical looping,” which uses an iron ore particle to separate the hydrogen from oxygen. While coal, natural gas, or biomass are the underlying fuels, developers can capture the resulting CO2 and bury it or use it for enhanced oil recovery.
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