Pure Hydrogen has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with fellow Australian firm Wildfire Energy to produce hydrogen from commercial waste using the latter’s moving injection horizontal gasification technology, it said on March 31. 

Wildfire’s gasification technology converts waste into hydrogen by loading waste into a reactor with raw syngas then conditioned to remove chars, sulphurs and other contaminants for hydrogen to be separated and purified for end-use.  Wildfire will deliver its plant south of Brisbane targeting hydrogen production of 1,500 kg/day, which Pure Hydrogen will resell to end-users through its planned network of hydrogen hubs.  

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“This adds another distribution and storage point for Pure Hydrogen around Brisbane, the Gold Coast and surrounding areas aligning with the company’s strategy of building a network of hydrogen storage and distribution hubs across Australia,” it said. 

Pure Hydrogen is working with US-based Hyzon Motors to jointly develop hydrogen refuelling points in Australia. It is also studying the commercial viability of building, owning and operating a hydrogen fuel plant in Queensland with a minimum capacity of 36mn kilograms/year. Potential sites for the plant are being reviewed in the Surat basin, adjacent to Venus coalbed methane project, and near Gladstone.