PHE8 Mar 2021 17:23
Road well under way
dual projects are expected to earn revenues from gate fees, for taking in wastes (e.g. plastics at £80/tonne); plus sale of electricity, hydrogen, & heat/steam, produced from processing wastes. Hydrogen sales could generate 5x more revenue than electricity sales per unit volume of waste processed (hydrogen currently sells at £10 - £12 per Kg). The proportion of electricity to hydrogen produced can be varied for each site over time, e.g. as demand for hydrogen increases.
A 25 tpd DMG would potentially generate c2,000 kg hydrogen per day (sufficient to drive 2,000 FCEV's 57 miles each) or generate c1.6MW electricity (sufficient to power around 3,000 homes and equivalent to a medium-size wind turbine).
Construction of the first commercial system (25 tpd initially, with later enlargement to 35 tpd) will be at Peel Environmental's Protos Energy Innovation Park (UK), with construction expected to start around end 2020 and expected to take at least 12 months to complete - followed by testing and certification. (David Ryan, Interview Q&A, 15/7/2020)