Transforming natural gas into hydrogen and graphitic carbon without CO2 emissions.
We’ve developed a process for converting natural gas into hydrogen and solid graphitic carbon, with very low electrical energy consumption and virtually no direct CO2 emissions.
Natural gas provides 25% of the world's energy.
60% of the energy in methane comes from hydrogen, which is a zero emission fuel.
Methane pyrolysis:
A solution with some problems
Methane pyrolysis is a generic term for using high temperatures to split methane into hydrogen and solid carbon without direct CO2 emissions. Temperatures can range from 800 to 900 C for catalytic processes and upwards of 1200 C for non-catalytic approaches.
To achieve these high temperatures, many commercial processes utilize electricity as the heat source via plasma, microwaves, inductive heating, or resistive heating. Unfortunately, these approaches require large amounts of high-capacity-factor, low-carbon electricity, which is in short supply in many markets.
Additionally, nearly all methane pyrolysis approaches must use reactors with high surface area-to-volume ratios to maximize heat input, which limits their reactor size. While small, modular systems are often described as scalable, in practice, there are very few commodity chemical processes that can operate profitably at small scale.
Our unique approach
Since our company was founded in 2018, our engineering team has been working on developing a form of methane pyrolysis that:
- Has low electrical energy consumption
- Has minimal direct CO2 emissions
- Can be deployed at world-scale with a single process train
- Produces valuable carbon that is easy to transport
Drawing on our team’s experience and years of internal research, we developed a novel, patented methane pyrolysis that meets the above criteria.
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What makes our methane pryolysis process unique in the industry?
Scale-up strategy
