By producing gas at the point of use, HiiROC sidesteps costly problems of storage and distribution
email rounding up the latestHydrogen has been proclaimed as the fuel of the future for much of the past five decades. Detractors have even suggested its time may never come, as it remains expensive to produce and tricky to transport.
“If you look at hydrogen becoming a fuel to help the planet to reach net zero, then you need another way of making it,” says Davies, HiiROC’s chief executive.— can convert biomethane, flare gas or natural gas into clean hydrogen at a cost that is comparable to steam methane reforming but without the associated emissions. It is also cheaper than water electrolysis.
Hydrocarbons “are good fuels”, he adds. “They contain a huge amount of energy. The problem is the carbon dioxide that is produced. If we can find a way of decarbonising hydrocarbons, then hydrocarbons can carry on being valuable fuels and we use the hydrogen that comes off.” Investors, however, have started to take notice and, despite this year’s market volatility, have poured millions of dollars into technology start-ups.
The money raised by HiiROC in 2021 will be used to launch a series of pilot projects with its backers next year. One is a facility in Germany with Wintershall Dea and VNG that will have a nominal capacity of 400kg of hydrogen per day, equivalent to an annual energy output of almost 5GWh. The companies are already in talks with potential customers for the hydrogen, and about a possible location in eastern Germany.
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