"environment" It plans to establish the first station in the Middle East to convert waste into hydrogen

2025/01/14 9:40:08 PM

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ABU DHABI, January 14 / WAM / Bee’ah, on the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit held within Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, revealed comprehensive plans to establish the first station in the Middle East to convert waste into hydrogen on a commercial scale in the Al Saja’a area in Sharjah.

The initiative comes in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, the British Chinook Hydrogen, and the Japanese Air Water. This station is expected to open new and innovative horizons for producing green hydrogen and using it to produce emission-free energy, thus supporting green mobility based on hydrogen fuel.

This innovation is based on the use of “Rodix” technology, patented by the “Chinook Hydrogen” company, which includes “gasification” and pyrolysis technologies, in addition to “AirWater Inc.” technologies belonging to the Japanese company “AirWater”, in order to produce hydrogen for fuel cells from organic sources. Including municipal solid waste, the resulting green hydrogen can also be easily used in energy and industrial applications or in hydrogen-powered vehicles.

The first phase of the station is expected to be operated in the second quarter of 2027, with a daily production capacity of 7 tons of green hydrogen and an annual production capacity of 2,560 tons. During that process, the station will contribute to diverting tens of thousands of tons of waste annually away from landfills, while reducing about 30,000 tons. Tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually.

In addition to green hydrogen, the plant will also produce useful by-products such as bio-based carbon dioxide, which can support the production of alternative fuels, and nitrogen, an important gas for many industrial applications.

His Excellency Engineer Sherif Al Olama, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure for Energy and Petroleum Affairs, stressed the importance of the initiative in diversifying energy sources and leading the green hydrogen production scene, which are among the important priorities of the Ministry within the framework of the UAE Centennial Plan 2071 and the National Hydrogen Strategy. He welcomed the cooperation of Bee’ah and Chinook Hydrogen in Waste-to-Hydrogen Conversion Station Project: This innovative project for producing green hydrogen from waste has tremendous potential to contribute to achieving national priorities such as reducing dependence on fossil fuels and enhancing the UAE’s position as one of the world’s leading countries in producing… Hydrogen.

Khaled Al Huraimel, CEO and Vice Chairman of Bee’ah Group, noted the importance of cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, the British Chinook Hydrogen and the Japanese Air Water, to complete the first station to convert waste into hydrogen on a commercial scale in the Middle East. Pointing out that the station will help confront the emissions challenge on several fronts, including opening opportunities to provide carbon-free fuel to sectors whose emissions are difficult to reduce, supporting mobility using hydrogen, and increasing conversion rates of waste that is difficult to recycle, thus eliminating emissions resulting from Landfills.

Dr. Refaat Shalabi, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Chinook Hydrogen, said that Chinook, in cooperation with Bee’ah and partners, have formed an experienced team to ensure the success of implementing the promising and unique station and achieving its goals with high professionalism, noting that the waste-to-waste conversion station Hydrogen, which will be held in the Emirate of Sharjah, will contribute to achieving this goal for the hydrogen sector and is consistent with the UAE’s vision of becoming a global leader in the development and production of low-carbon fuels in the future.

It is worth noting that the waste-to-hydrogen technology that will be used in the station has been independently verified by international consultants and has obtained a technical readiness level of between 6 and 7, which indicates its readiness to be tested in operational environments and its ability to expand on a larger scale.

Following the completion of the first phase, Bee’ah, in cooperation with Chinook Hydrogen and Air Water, plans to increase the plant’s production capacity to reach 20 tons of green hydrogen per day.