Hazer Group’s new green hydrogen milestone

Hydrogen technology developer Hazer Group has passed a new production milestone, achieving 240 hours continuous operation at its Commercial Demonstration Plant at Woodlawn in Western Australia.

The company told investors the plant has achieved stable production of hydrogen and graphite and 97.5 percent plant uptime utilising a feedstock of methane biogas.

The CDP is now operating in a steady state mode with continuous production of hydrogen and graphite while operation is being optimised to produce commercially representative graphite, according to the company.

Graphite will undergo quality verification to ensure consistency and representativeness prior to distribution to partners for testing and analysis.

Hazer CEO Glenn Corrie said, “I am delighted to announce this significant achievement by the Company and the team.

“The ongoing ‘testing – modification – testing’ work by our scientists, engineers and technicians has resulted in excellent performance and demonstration of high reliability for our first-of-a-kind technology.

“We have achieved another major milestone that enables the commercialisation of the Hazer process and supports our growth strategy globally.”

Following completion of the current test run, the plant is scheduled for planned maintenance and inspections on equipment and the company will analyse the steady state operation dataset.

“The CDP is demonstrating Hazer’s differentiated, low-cost, clean hydrogen solution at commercial scale with the performance test programme providing further confidence in the plan to declare commercial readiness in 2024.

“The CDP results are concurrently being used to advance four existing commercial projects with POSCO, ENGIE, Chubu Electric / Chiyoda Corporation and FortisBC as well as advance new customer projects and strategic partnership opportunities.”

Accomplishment of 240 hours of operation also achieves an operational performance milestone under an ARENA funding agreement and the release of the next tranche of funding in January 2025.

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