RE: Swaz. Oh dear10 Oct 2024 23:19
Regarding Hynet, I too live in the North West, and became aware of PHE and EQTEC due to the Hynet project.
Basically, it was envisaged to be a hydrogen network hub for North Wales, Merseyside and Manchester.
The hydrogen source for this project, howrever, was not from PHE at plot 10b.
The Ellesmere Port refinery was to be the main source.
Part of this project was the Protos waste recycling park. PHE have a small plot, 10b, next to a plastic waste sorting area in Plot 10a. The original PHE offtake was to be electricity. If you visit the site, you can see the substation that was built over 2 years ago, with the underground cable trunking linking Plot 10b. I don't recall a hydrogen offtake for PHE at that time.
I thought it was Plantdad who showed us videos on thi forum some years back, but I may be confusing him with another poster from that time.
I don't want people on here getting carried away with Protos. PHE's part was a very small one.
Maybe, under our new leadership, PHE could get a larger slice of the pie. Or our forthcoming trials can demonstrate to the Hynet scheme that it can play a larger part. Synthetic air fuels? Hydrogen? Or just electricity and heat?
Hynet is for carbon capture - an abundance of which is emitted during hydrogen production and oil refining at Stanlow/Ellesmere Port.
In my opinion, PHE is wate to energy, and could not compete with the before mentioned sites.,in terms of volume of supply of hydrogen.
I hope (as an investor) that trials at Bridgend will give details of expected volumes of syngas/hydrogen or SAF as well as purity. It would be a good indication of what type of scheme a full scaale kiln would fit into. It will need significant volumes of hydrogen to be available from one full size kiln at Protos. More realistic is the Australian route . Many plants accross a country.
Either path forward should prove PHE a worthwhile investment. All IMO.