{"id":463427,"date":"2022-06-15T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T18:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/german-sustainability-startup-turning-waste-product-into-green-hydrogen\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T18:43:26","slug":"german-sustainability-startup-turning-waste-product-into-green-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/german-sustainability-startup-turning-waste-product-into-green-hydrogen\/","title":{"rendered":"#German sustainability startup turning waste product into green hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3ebdedc3a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/german-sustainability-startup-turning-waste-product-into-green-hydrogen\/#%E2%80%9CGerman_sustainability_startup_turning_waste_product_into_green_hydrogen%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;German sustainability startup turning waste product into green hydrogen&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/german-sustainability-startup-turning-waste-product-into-green-hydrogen\/#Remind_me_how_you_make_hydrogen\" >Remind me how you make hydrogen?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/german-sustainability-startup-turning-waste-product-into-green-hydrogen\/#Hi_there_EV_nerd\" >Hi there, EV nerd!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/german-sustainability-startup-turning-waste-product-into-green-hydrogen\/#Huge_price_drops_for_green_hydrogen_production\" >Huge price drops for green hydrogen production<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGerman_sustainability_startup_turning_waste_product_into_green_hydrogen%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;German sustainability startup turning waste product into green hydrogen&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n                            <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many great use cases of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hydrogen fuel cells<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> powering vehicles like trucks, buses, ships, trains, aircraft, and to a lesser extent, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cars<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While hydrogen is a green substance in action \u2014 much like green electricity \u2014 it\u2019s sourcing historically isn\u2019t. <span>In 2020, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axpo.com\/ch\/en\/about-us\/magazine.detail.html\/magazine\/renewable-energy\/hydrogen-basics.html\">96% of the hydrogen used<\/a> was produced based on fossil energy sources. <\/span>But now, a German company has found a way to convert waste into usable green hydrogen that can generate power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Remind_me_how_you_make_hydrogen\"><\/span><strong>Remind me how you make hydrogen?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Energy providers most commonly extract hydrogen from water using heat and chemical reactions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, this is traditionally an energy-intensive process that, unless it includes the use of renewable energies, generates harmful greenhouse gas emissions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper shift channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads.tnw\/uploads\/Shift1.gif\"\/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/src=\" https:=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<h2 class=\"channel-cta-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hi_there_EV_nerd\"><\/span>Hi there, EV nerd!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">Subscribe now for a weekly recap of our favorite mobility stories<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But German energy storage company <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/h2-industries.com\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">H2-Industries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announced the construction of Egypt\u2019s first waste-to-hydrogen facilities and the world\u2019s first project of its type.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company is developing a project to convert organic waste from the Suez Canal Economic Zone into usable hydrogen. This includes\u00a0plastic, agricultural waste, and sewage sludge<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company will transfer this hydrogen into a \u201ccarrier fluid\u201d to transport and use to fill storage tanks much like diesel, but without the respective carbon emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, energy providers can use waste heat from the H2-Industries\u2019 process to generate power with steam turbines and generators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazing stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Huge_price_drops_for_green_hydrogen_production\"><\/span><strong>Huge price drops for green hydrogen production<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the company, the project targets a production capacity of 300,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year. This means that the power plant can dispose of four million tonnes of municipal solid waste annually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Importantly, one of the big wins for evolving green hydrogen is cost. Price is traditionally a massive barrier in advancing green hydrogen innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Suez Canal Project will produce green hydrogen at half the cost of current production technologies, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">taking the cost even lower than current levels for low-carbon and grey hydrogen production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, the CO2 emissions captured in the processing could create low-cost synthetic diesel (eDiesel) or sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1363585 size-featured_img js-lazy\" alt=\"green hydrogen fuel cell tech\" width=\"796\" height=\"635\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" https:=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48-796x635.jpeg 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48-263x210.jpeg 263w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48-339x270.jpeg 339w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48-169x135.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48.jpeg 1366w\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fshift%2F2022%2F06%2F15%2Fcreating-green-hydrogen-from-plastic-agricultural-waste-and-sewage-sludge%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: In-vehicle hydrogen fuel cell tech\" data-title=\"Share In-vehicle hydrogen fuel cell tech on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share In-vehicle hydrogen fuel cell tech on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>In-vehicle hydrogen fuel cell tech<\/figcaption><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1363585 size-featured_img\" https:=\"\" alt=\"green hydrogen fuel cell tech\" width=\"796\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48-796x635.jpeg 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48-263x210.jpeg 263w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48-339x270.jpeg 339w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48-169x135.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-11-at-10.50.48.jpeg 1366w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s fair to say that green hydrogeninnovation is concentrated currently in research and development than in commercial use cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But a project of this scale makes commercial viability closer to reality. Hopefully, other stakeholders in the space can use the project findings to drive their own sustainable green hydrogen projects further.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without this (and the necessary hydrogen refueling stations), we\u2019ll never get beyond research to real use cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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