Technology

MSWH2 utilizes a new cutting-edge technology, to economically produce hydrogen from any carbonaceous material including municipal solid waste, wood, biomass, etc., into its basic constituents such as turquoise or green hydrogen.

At the heart of MSWH2’s system is a pyrolysis process that changes waste feedstock into hydrogen and other products in an environmentally-friendly way. Therefore, there are no emissions—just clean hydrogen and fuels as output. To do this, the company uses a process that requires high temperatures and precise control to maintain efficiency and cost-effectiveness. 

Today’s existing combustion, gasification, and pyrolysis technologies all provide inconsistent heating and poor mixing of the feed material, subjecting it to temperatures that are too low and/or too high throughout the process. The resulting product streams are useable only after complex and costly post processing which requires energy and chemicals, producing additional waste streams. In short, the overall processes can be energy negative and create more waste than is consumed.

MSWH2 solves the challenges of traditional combustion, gasification, and pyrolysis technologies through our APT reactor.

1. APT reactor is internally heated using a proven design commonly found in smelting furnaces
2. No combustion gases are created in the process resulting in zero CO2 emissions
3. Power to run the process comes from utilizing just 15% to 35% of the produced gas (hydrogen or syngas) to make zero-carbon or carbon neutral electricity
4. The reactor is filled with a conductive and resistive bed material that produces a consistent, tightly controlled temperature throughout the reactor (800 to 1200°C depending on feedstock) ensuring complete dissociation
5. Electrical influences acting directly on molecular bonds lowers the activation energy (a catalytic-like effect) required for dissociation of compounds
6. The reactor is internally insulated (refractory) and externally water jacketed, insuring low wall temperature and long vessel life
7. The unique and patent pending Fluidized-Moving-Bed Reactor (FMBR) insures complete mixing of feedstock and consistent temperature across the entire bed
8. Bed material is classified to remove produced fine solids and recycled to the reactor feed
9. The FMBR provides for introduction of gaseous, liquid, and solid feedstocks and easy extraction of solid and gaseous end products
10. All material enters the top of the FMBR and all products exit the bottom; everything is subjected to the design temperature setpoint – no underheating or overheating
11. Hydrogen and/or syngas exiting the FMBR is very clean requiring only compression and little post treatment
12. Due to complete dissociation of the feed material, most impurities become solids (salts, metals, minerals) and end up in the biochar or ash that is easily separated from the recycled bed material
13. At the end of our process we utilize a Fischer-Tropsch system, a gas-to-liquid polymerization technique that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can act as substitutes for petroleum products.