Levidian and Graphmatech will combine turquoise hydrogen production with graphene-enhanced materials to improve hydrogen storage, transport and infrastructure durability.
Under a ‘strategic collaboration’ between the Swedish startup and UK-based Levidian, the partnership will combine the latter’s patented LOOP technology with Graphmatech’s flagship product, Aros Graphene.
With LOOP, Levidian can produce hydrogen and high-quality graphene from methane without CO2 emissions, while Graphmatech enhances polymer materials for pipes, pressure vessels and other industrial applications, and they can reportedly reduce hydrogen leakage by up to 83%.
Product development will be carried out in the UK and Sweden, with “significant scope for growth in the Middle East.” This comes after Levidian expanded its presence in the region, recently announcing plans to use flare gas from a UAE natural gas firm’s field operations to produce graphene and hydrogen.
Ian Hopkins, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Levidian, claimed there’s an “urgent need” to develop high-performance, sustainable products that ensure hydrogen can be stored and transported safely.
Levidian: Producing hydrogen within a full circular economy
With more than two billion metric tonnes of municipal solid waste generated worldwide every year according to statista¹, innovators are beginning to consider landfill as an opportunity as opposed to a greenhouse gas (GHG) threat.
Expected to increase by around 70% by 2050 to 3.4 billion tonnes², the release of methane into the atmosphere will also increase, methane being much more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a 100-year period.
However, by managing the waste and coupling it with technologies that can capture and utilise methane, the harmful gas can be used as a valuable resource whilst also having its environmental impact mitigated.
One example of this is UK-based company, Levidian, and its methane-to-hydrogen and graphene technology, known as LOOP. The process uses methane as a feedstock to produce both hydrogen and Net Zero graphene.
Historically, conventional landfill would be captured and combusted to generate electricity or cleaned up and fed into the gas network, generating a significant amount of money. But the methane still has a content of CO2 and once it’s burned, that CO2 is released.
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