AFC Energy plc (AFC Energy) has a new company called Hyamtec Limited (Hyamtec), which is says can make on-site, on-demand hydrogen at just 10% of the cost of truck delivered hydrogen. The company will prioritize natural gas displacement in the hard to abate heavy industrial sectors, which account for 50% of global carbon emissions.
“Hyamtec is focused on fast tracking the decarbonization of industry through ammonia and our ammonia cracking technologies,” said Dr. Mike Rendall, managing director of Hyamtec. “With over £40billion spent per annum on natural gas by industrial users in the UK alone, the global opportunity to displace fossil fuels in industry with ammonia is immense.”
Hyamtec will target a hydrogen rich combustible fuel gas for the decarbonization of industrial heat generation, ammonia conversion of large combustion engines for power generation, marine and mining, and modular purified hydrogen production for fuel cells and transportation.
According to Hyamtec, hydrogen is the solution for decarbonization of heavy industry. The company believes that green hydrogen plants will dominate new capacity, and by 2030, up to 20% of hydrogen produced globally will be green. However, hydrogen is difficult to store and transport, and it will take decades to install hydrogen pipelines. To transport the hydrogen to where it will be used, typically thousands of miles away, will require it to be moved as ammonia and then converted back to hydrogen.
“The global journey to net zero will require the rapid development of hydrogen-based technologies,” said Rendall. “We look forward to partnering with industry to support the rapid decarbonization of the world’s hardest to abate sectors and to announcing Hyamtec’s first commercial deals soon.”
