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Sharjah-based BEEAH Group, UK’s Chinook Sciences and Japan’s Air Water will jointly produce fuel cell grade hydrogen from waste wood and plastic.
The three companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Japan as a first step in setting up a consortium that will advance the waste-to-hydrogen plant in Sharjah, first announced in May 2021.
Last month, Egypt’s Green Planet for Sustainable Environmental Solutions had signed an MoU with US-based H2-Industries to provide the necessary feedstock, comprising organic and non-recyclable plastic waste, for the Middle East’s first waste-to-hydrogen plant at East Port Said/Suez Canal Economic Zone.
BEEAH said the plant will transform waste wood and plastic into fuel-cell grade green hydrogen by combining BEEAH Group’s expertise in waste management and material recovery, Chinook Sciences’ patented RODECS pyrolysis and gasification process and Air Water’s Hydrogen Refinement technology.
The hydrogen will be produced for PEM fuel cells at ISO14687 or SAEJ2719 standards, the statement said, adding that the waste-to-hydrogen project also included an on-site green hydrogen fuelling station.
In March 2022, BEEAH Group and Chinook Sciences Green had announced the commencement of development plans for the project, which is expected to produce up to 18,000 kilogrammes of green hydrogen/day at maximum production capacity and fuel up to 1,000 hydrogen-powered large vehicles/day.
As per the UAE’s hydrogen leadership roadmap, the country aims to be a hub for the export of low-carbon hydrogen and is targeting 25 percent of the global market.
(Writing by P Deol; Editing by Anoop Menon)
