Hycamite TCD Technologies, a company specialized in advanced technology for emission-free methane splitting, announces in an official statement the inauguration of Europe’s largest methane splitting plant in Kokkola, Finland.
Hycamite’s methane splitting plant
This facility, known as the Customer Sample Facility(CSF), once fully operational, will reach a nominal production capacity of 2000 tons of low-carbon hydrogen and 6000 tons of high-quality carbon per year.
“Hycamite’s CSF establishes the viability of new methane splitting technology. Hycamite will open other methane splitting plants in other parts of the world in the future.”
Laura Rahikka, executive director of Hycamite,
The CSF’s decarbonization capabilities could reach up to 18,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) annually, when liquefied natural gas(LNG) is used. Now, if biomethane is used, the hydrogen produced will be low-carbon, and it also becomes carbon-negative, removing more CO₂ than it emits during its production.
The company’s technology allows the decomposition of large volumes of methane, reducing it to its basic components, such as hydrogen and carbon, avoiding the emission of polluting gases into the atmosphere. The resulting clean hydrogen can be used as an industrial feedstock or as a fuel.
One of the main energy advantages of this processing is the use of 13% of the energy needed for hydrogen production through electrolysis. The use of methane as a feedstock, whether natural gas, biomethane or syngas, allows for a rapid increase in overall production.
The new CSF is located close to Hycamite’s headquarters and small test facilities in the Kokkola Industrial Park(KIP). This park is the largest industrial ecosystem of the inorganic chemical industry in Northern Europe, where some leading companies in the chemical and metal processing sectors operate.
The methane processing stages. Source: Hycamite
One of the most innovative aspects of Hycamite’s technology is the carbon capture, utilization and storage system. carbon capture, utilization and storage(CCUS). Instead of releasing carbon into the atmosphere, the captured carbon is stored in solid form and marketed as graphite and other high-value industrial products.
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