PowerHouse Energy Group PLC (LON:PHE) has announced that its demonstration energy generation plant powers the Energy Centre at University of Chichester’s Thornton Science Park microgrid for the first time.
The AIM-listed firm said this is the first practical application of this leading-edge technology of taking waste plastic and converting it to clean electrical energy through PHE’s proprietary G3-UHt Distributed Modular Gasification (DMG) process.
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"Using its demonstration energy generation plant, the Thornton Science Park’s microgrid was connected and supplied with electricity this week," PowerHouse said.
The company said that DMG process gasifies the non-recyclable mixed and contaminated plastic waste at ultra-high temperatures into syngas (a fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of hydrogen), from which electricity can be generated and clean hydrogen, which can be used to power vehicles for example, can be extracted.
PowerHouse said connection to the microgrid is a meaningful step in the business development strategy for the DMG technology leading towards the production of mainstream commercial waste to hydrogen generation units.
Keith Allaun, CEO of PowerHouse, said: “This is a promising step along the path to the commercial roll-out of our waste to hydrogen solutions, which are also ideally suited to help reduce the vast quantities of waste plastic that is causing an environmental disaster across the world’s oceans."