RE: PHE6 May 2025 13:32
Role king,
The hydrogen cleanup is an add on to extract the hydrogen/convert it. I’m not an expert, so I’m sure some others can explain better or better yet ridicule me for not explaining better… but I can quote Paul’s response to this when questioned:
All,
Whilst I appreciate your advice/sentiment. Any marketing or grant chasing must be focussed and non company personnel contacting organisations is likely to reduce any impact that PHE may have at this point.
I noted in the CMD that I had deliberately not marketed PHE during 2024, this does not mean nothing has been done to generate a customer pipeline, nor does it mean that we don’t know how to do it.
The feedback from everyone we have approached previously has been “let’s see one working” and that is what I focussed on in 2024. We couldn’t market an empty space.
In 2025 we will step up PR (noting that Tavistock are IR not PR) raise awareness of PHE, get clients that have been in the pipeline through the doors as well as new prospects.
We have to focus on the first order, a scattergun approach means we get tied up with multiple enquiries that need to be screened and either turned down or developed, this ties up personnel and we risk letting people down. Which will impact our reputation.
Additionally, I see a number of comments about the FTU.
To clarify, the FTU was running for the whole of the CMD, it was running at rate (approx 100kg/hr), we utilised a funnel as it is easier to fill, as the feedstock is in 25kg bags, it was not seen being loaded as we have 3 hoppers in the feed system along with the screw volume, it was at temperature and the flare was running throughout the day.
The FTU was not built to produce syngas commercially (as stated on the day) it was however designed with the required connections for future changes. We don’t currently need to store Syngas nor make Hydrogen, this would have added significantly more cost to the build, and clients interest lays in the syngas components, the removal of hydrogen from the syngas utilises a proven off the shelf technology, so we do not need to prove it works.
I too would love Bridgend to have a small filling station but permission for that is a minefield that we do not want to be tying up resource on at this stage.
We are focussed on getting a unit sold and that’s where resource needs to be focussed.
I really appreciate all of your support and I am sorry that some of you now see more negatives than positives since the FTU has been completed.
Many thanks
Paul