As a strategic step towards achieving sustainable growth, PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero) will develop the world’s first hybrid green ammonia project. The development of this project is being carried out in collaboration with two Japanese corporations, ITOCHU Corporation (ITOCHU) and Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO).
This strategic collaboration was marked by the signing of a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) titled “Green Ammonia Initiative from Aceh (Project GAIA)” by the President Director of Pupuk Indonesia, Rahmad Pribadi (far right in the photo), alongside ITOCHU’s President and COO, Keita Ishii, and TOYO’s President and CEO, Eiji Hosoi, during the 2nd Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) Ministerial Meeting held in Jakarta recently.
The goal of Project GAIA is to produce green ammonia at the PIM-2 fertilizer plant owned by Pupuk Iskandar Muda, located in the Arun Lhokseumawe Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Aceh. The production of green ammonia will be supported by the installation of an electrolyzer at the fertilizer plant.
This electrolyzer technology functions to extract hydrogen from water compounds, using renewable energy sources for the electrolysis process. The hydrogen produced in this process is then reacted with nitrogen to produce ammonia. This process leaves no carbon footprint, thus it is referred to as green ammonia.
In the same series of events, Pupuk Kujang also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PLN Indonesia Power and IHI Corporation (IHI) concerning collaboration on green ammonia studies and the implementation of ammonia co-firing demonstrations.
