SolidHydrogen partners with Korea’s EN2CORE Technology

Sydney startup SolidHydrogen and South Korea’s EN2CORE Technology have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, aiming to demonstrate their combined technologies for producing and storing hydrogen in a “pilot at scale”.  

SolidHydrogen is developing metal hydrides, a type of alloy, to “store, purify, and compress hydrogen at a fraction of the cost of existing technologies”. EN2CORE creates hydrogen and carbon black from natural gas using plasma.

According to SolidHydrogen, its hydrides can space-efficiently absorb large volumes of hydrogen, “offering the lowest cost per kilogram per cycle on the market” and with a system that is “non-explosive, long-lasting, and fully recyclable.”

The pair said in a statement this week that they aim to reduce the cost of low-carbon hydrogen through the MoU.

They acknowledge recent skeptical media reports about hydrogen’s potential to replace fossil fuels, as well as challenges faced by large hydrogen projects. The statement adds that the hydrogen market continues to grow, and that their partnership aims to demonstrate projects that aren’t viable yet, and to unlock new, profitable applications, citing hard-to-abate industries such as green steel and ammonia.

SolidHydrogen’s website lists its headquarters as the Sydney Knowledge Hub at University of Sydney, and its executive team as CEO Philippe Odouard, who formerly headed composites businesses XTEK and Quickstep, and CTO Francois Aguey-Zinsou, a professor of chemistry at the university.

Picture: credit SolidHydrogen

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