The company uses pyrolysis technology to convert the waste product into clean hydrogen, and the hydrogen production process from flaring gas is CO2-emission free.

The technology will be delivered in self-contained 20 or 40-foot ISO containers and can be pre-assembled in a semi-serial production and shipped for installation to the flaring site.

The process provides clean hydrogen bound in liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC), which can absorb and release hydrogen through chemical reactions. LOHCs can therefore be used as a storage medium for hydrogen.

The only by-product of the process is solid carbon black that can be shipped for export using ISO container tanks. Carbon black is mainly used to strengthen rubber in tyres. But it can also act as a pigment, UV stabiliser, conductive or insulating agent in various rubber, plastic, coating applications, and other everyday use, including hoses, conveyor belts, shoes, and printing. The carbon black can be sold on the world market, where current prices are between $1.5 and $2.5 per kg.

Gas flaring is now recognised as a major contributor to the emission of harmful gases affecting climate change and society by creating increased incidences of cancer in communities close to flaring sites.

H2-Industries and Public Establishment For Industrial Estates – Madayan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a waste-to-hydrogen plant in conjunction with PV solar power plants with base-load capacity in the Sultanate of Oman. The proposed $1.4bn facility will be built on a 200,000sqm coastal site.

It will initially convert up to one million tonnes of municipal solid waste each year sourced from waste management operators and mined from existing landfills but has the capacity to expand to manage up to four million tonnes of waste. The project also includes the construction of a 300MW base-load capable PV solar installation that will include 70MW of electrical storage.

Preliminary approval has been granted to H2-Industries by the General Authority for Suez Canal Economic Zone (SC°Zone) for the development of a 1GW LOHC Hydrogen Hub at East Port-Said which will be the first project of its type in the world.

The hydrogen plant will be fed with four million tonnes of organic waste and non-recyclable plastic per year secured at the Mediterranean entrance to the canal.  The Suez Canal Project will produce 300,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year at half the levelised cost of current green hydrogen production technologies, taking the cost even lower than current levels for low-carbon and grey hydrogen production.