2 March
2018
PowerHouse Energy Group
plc
(“PowerHouse” or the “Company”)
Electricity
Production with DMG® System at Thornton Science Park
PowerHouse Energy Group plc (AIM: PHE), the UK technology
company pioneering hydrogen production from waste plastic and
end-of-life tyres, is pleased to provide an update on progress with
the demonstration system at the University of Chester’s Thornton
Science Park.
The DMG® (Distributed Modular Gasification)
demonstration system was successfully commissioned last summer
after a complete rebuild and upgrade on its arrival in the UK. The
system has continued to operate as expected over a period of nearly
six months with a variety of feedstocks producing high-quality
synthesis gas (“syngas”) safely and efficiently. Independent
engineering analysis of the gas produced by tyre crumb has
determined that the syngas can be adequately purified to provide a
99.999% pure stream of road-fuel-quality hydrogen while in parallel
generating electricity from excess syngas.
Thus far in 2018, the testing program at the Thornton site has
been concentrated on plastics – our initial targeted commercial
feedstock. Both native plastic and waste plastic feedstock have
been tested under a variety of pre-determined conditions to produce
hydrogen-rich syngas and syngas for electrical generation.
The penultimate aim of the testing program has been the
successful operation of the Company’s gas generator system for the
production of electricity. The gas generator set has been operated
on the syngas streams derived from each native and waste plastic
using the syngas produced by the DMG® system for
internal load operations. The data derived from this testing
program is contributing substantially to the front-end-design
engineering program for our first commercial project targeted at
the Ellesmere Port area as announced previously. Subsequent to
initial commercial operations the Company will finalise the
engineering of the ultimate aim of the DMG® System:
hydrogen production.
The next stage of electrical production testing for the
DMG® system will include connection of the generator to
the Energy Centre’s micro-grid at Thornton Science Park. The site
engineering for the micro-grid connection is under way and is being
managed by the Energy Centre, with the expectation that the
PowerHouse system will support the operation of the centre’s
combined heating and power plant and other independently operated
electrical components.
David
Ryan, Technical Director of PowerHouse, commented:
“The results of the plastics testing have been very encouraging
and allow us to feed valuable data into our rapidly advancing
commercial process design. We continue to use the data
derived from our process demonstration unit in our ongoing dialogue
with prospective manufacturers and to aid and accelerate our
planning and permitting processes.”
For more information, contact:
PowerHouse Energy Group plc
Keith Allaun, Chief Executive Officer |
Tel: +44 (0) 203 368 6399 |
WH Ireland Limited (Nominated Adviser)
James Joyce / Chris Viggor |
Tel: +44 (0) 207 220 1666 |
Turner Pope Investments Ltd (Broker)
Andy Thacker |
Tel: +44 (0) 203 621 4120 |
Buchanan (Media enquiries)
Mark Court / Chris Lane |
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 5000 |
About PowerHouse Energy
PowerHouse Energy Group plc is the developer of the G3-UHt Ultra
High Temperature Gasification unit, and the creator of
DMG®, the Distributed Modular Gasification System that
allows the distributed eradication of waste, the generation of
distributed electricity, and the production of distributed hydrogen
with the world’s first hydrogen from waste (HfW) process.
The Company is focused on technologies to enable projects for
energy recovery from municipal and industrial waste streams that
would otherwise be directed to landfills and incinerators; or from
renewable and alternative fuels such as biomass, tyres, and
plastics to create synthesis gas (syngas) for power generation, or
high-quality hydrogen as a fuel for transport. DMG®
allows for easy, economical, deployment and scaling of an
environmentally sound solution to the growing challenges of waste
eradication, landfill diversion, electrical demand, and distributed
hydrogen production.
PowerHouse is quoted on the London Stock Exchange's AIM Market
and is incorporated in the United
Kingdom.
For more information see www.powerhouseenergy.net