Sharjah, UAE— Environment management company BEEAH Group has signed an MoU with UK’s Chinook Sciences and Japanese conglomerate Air Water to produce fuel cell grade hydrogen from waste wood and plastic in Sharjah.
The three firms will form a consortium that will advance progress on the Middle East’s first waste to hydrogen plant, located in Sharjah, and explore further opportunities across the region.
Combining BEEAH’s expertise in waste management and material recovery, Chinook Sciences patented RODECS pyrolysis and gasification process, and Air Water’s Hydrogen Refinement technology, the Waste to Hydrogen plant in Sharjah will transform waste wood and plastic into fuel-cell grade green hydrogen.
The plans for the Waste to Hydrogen plant include an on-site green hydrogen dispensing station capable of fuelling several vehicles.
To realise this innovative type of fuelling station, the plant will need to produce fuel cell grade hydrogen, which will be made possible with Air Water’s Hydrogen Refinement technology. Syngas produced from the RODECS pyrolysis and gasification process from Chinook Sciences will be fed into the hydrogen refinement system, resulting in fuel cell grade green hydrogen.
Air Water’s engineering division based in New Jersey, United States, has been working with Chinook Sciences since 2004 on the active pyrolysis technology in the multi-patented RODECS process, which is a universal thermal treatment system.