Hydrogen Refinery

Wherever there are people on our planet, three economic actions always happen: 1. We grow food 2. We need fuel 3. We create waste Hydrogen Refinery Ltd (H2R) was set-up to enable humankind to continue with this economic activity, as we implement the historic agreement at COP28 to phase out fossil fuels. We use the waste to replace the fossil fuels used to make fertilizer to grow food and for fuel. We do this with zero emissions and at a price that is the same or lower than the fossil fuel alternative. H2R produces carbon negative and low-cost hydrogen or synthesis gas (syngas) from mixed waste. The technology used is the patented Plasma Electrolyser System (PES) that has been under development by the British military since 2003. Waste such as non-recyclable plastics or municipal solid waste (MSW) is removed from the environment without the emissions associated with landfill or incineration providing a step-up in the waste hierarchy. This is possible because PES does not use a catalyst. There are no gaseous emissions from PES, all the carbon and other impurities in the waste is captured in a carbon soot which is used as a replacement for coal ash for ‘green’ cement production, and for other carbon products. Effectively this is automatic carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS). The low-cost hydrogen is used to make green ammonia for urea and ammonia nitrate fertilizers. The heat produced from PES provides the same efficiencies to the Haber-Bosch process as steam methane reforming (SMR) and is twice as efficient as hydrogen produced from water electrolysis. The low-cost syngas is used to make methanol or drop-in fuels including synthetic marine diesel (SMD) and synthetic aviation fuel (SAF).