A Clear Focus on the Future

Hydrogen Generation

GTI Energy focuses R&D efforts on the generation of clean hydrogen from different feedstocks through a variety of processes. Although hydrogen burns with zero emissions, it is often produced in a way that creates GHG emissions, but there is a lot of potential to reduce the GHG impact based on the way it is created. Hydrogen can be produced with low or no carbon emissions, but selecting the best hydrogen generation technology often depends on the application.

By incorporating carbon capture and/or carbon sequestration in a cost-effective manner, clean hydrogen can be generated from hydrocarbons for large scale or smaller distributed production. The process of creating hydrogen via electrolysis is being pursued to store renewable electricity from wind or solar in a form that will provide dispatchable lower-carbon energy to consumers that could be used for remote and back-up power generation.

GTI Energy has developed technologies to make hydrogen on-site from renewable feedstocks to minimize costs of hydrogen transportation. GTI Energy’s micro-scale steam methane reforming (SMR) technology utilizes renewable gas from digester plants or landfills to generate hydrogen on-site. GTI Energy has a long history of building and operating on-site hydrogen generation and dispensing stations to fuel vehicle fleets. Another example is gasifying renewable agricultural or woody biomass to generate renewable hydrogen—one of the major components of the syngas created by gasification. GTI Energy has decades of expertise in biomass conversion, gas quality, clean-up, and processing which is being used to support projects from SunGas Renewables, Inc.