Air Products will develop both an ITM unit producing oxygen and an electrical cogeneration unit producing power, as part of the pilot plant project.
The US Department of Energy will provide funding for the ITM demonstration project, which will be operational in the second half of next year.
The cogen facility will produce about 5MW of electric power which will be used to operate the oxygen plant and for export power.
ITM technology uses a ceramic material which, under pressure and temperature, ionizes and separates oxygen molecules from air.
