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Lanxess AG will switch from natural gas to hydrogen to fuel the spray dryer used to dry iron oxide pigments at its Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany site—making it one of the first large-scale industrial plants in Germany to use hydrogen continuously and reducing the site’s carbon emissions.

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Lanxess to use hydrogen as fuel at iron oxide production facility

This article was originally posted on chemengonline.com.

Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) announced that it will use hydrogen instead of natural gas to dry iron oxide pigments at its site in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany. This will make the spray dryer one of the first large-scale industrial plants in Germany to use hydrogen as a fuel in continuous operation. Lanxess will thereby reduce its carbon […]

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