H2-Industries said that it has inked an MOU with Oman’s Public Establishment for Industrial Estates – Madayn to establish a waste-to-hydrogen facility in the Gulf state.
According to H2-Industries, the proposed $1.4 billion plants would be erected on a 200,000 square meter beachfront location and will comprise a photovoltaic (PV) solar power system with base-load capacity.
The plant will be able to convert up to one million tonnes of municipal solid trash per year (with the ability to increase to four million tonnes) received from waste management companies and mined from existing landfills.
The building of Oman’s first waste-to-hydrogen project also comprises a 300-megawatt (MW) base-load PV solar array with 70 MW of energy storage.
The project will begin generating hydrogen in roughly 30 months once the pre-development and permitting phases are finished, according to the announcement.
The yearly output of hydrogen and CO2 created from the garbage has an export value of about $268 million, according to the statement, with 67,000 tonnes of green hydrogen and one million tonnes of CO2 produced each year.
It said the green hydrogen could be sold and transported internationally using H2-Industries’ Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) technologies, or H2-Industries could make low-cost synthetic diesel (eDiesel) or sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the CO2 captured, depending on international market demand.
Michael Stusch, H2-Industries’ Executive Chairman, said the project will “make a significant contribution to the country’s waste management plan.” With a population of about three million people, the nation generates roughly 1.9 million tonnes of solid garbage each year.
H2-Industries said in January 2022 that it has got preliminary authorization from Egypt’s General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) to build a waste-to-hydrogen facility in East Port-Said.
