Australian east coast clean energy company, Pure Hydrogen, announced that it is proceeding with its plans to manufacture turquoise hydrogen through the signing of a binding collaboration and licence term sheet with French technology company Plenesys to commercialise the Plenesys HyPlasma process.
The partnership will begin with a pilot plant in Brisbane, which is expected to be operational in the next 12 months, and will be followed by full commercial size modules in Pure Hydrogen’s exclusive markets of Australia, Asia Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
For the past two years, Pure Hydrogen has been researching methane pyrolysis (turquoise hydrogen) and plans to use the HyPlasma process to demonstrate commercial manufacturing of 21st century clean energy products such as hydrogen and value-added carbon products like graphene from natural gas and biomethane.
Pure Hydrogen Managing Director Scott Brown said the company will have exclusive rights to commercialise the HyPlasma process in Australia, as well as in other key South East Asian countries and southern Africa for an initial 10-year period, with options to extend the length of exclusivity and add new regions.
“Turquoise hydrogen is a cleaner use of natural gas (methane), and Graphene has many emerging applications in electronics and highstrength, light-weight materials, which is particularly important in the production of batteries, electronic equipment, fabrication and building materials. Graphene can be absolute game changer in so many products,” he said.
“As an example, Lowering the weight of an EV is equally important as delivering clean energy to power it as less weight equals less fuel and greater range.
Our initial programme is focussed on demonstrating and refining the process, before commencing commercial scale operations. It is no doubt there is significant upside for the technology globally.”
