Hydrogen Utopia (HUI), waste-to-energy tech developer Powerhouse Energy’s partner in Europe, is to start a programme of testing in the Netherlands to convert waste plastic into hydrogen.
HUI has been working in collaboration with Dutch group Electron Technologies since May 2021 on the design of a pioneering thermal processing system for the conversion of waste plastics to hydrogen.
The system pyrolyses plastic in the absence of air at a temperature of up to 500 ° C, which produces a synthetic gas (“syngas”).
It then subjects the syngas to a higher temperature conversion step. A test rig is currently in the final stages of assembly to test the first lower temperature pyrolysis stage of the system.
Electron, with HUI’s help, is currently sourcing suitable plastic material to use in the tests, which are expected to take place next month and will help fine-tune the…