The country's first commercial-scale biomass-based hydrogen plant is coming up in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh, reports Business Line newspaper. The plant will produce a ton of hydrogen a day, from a feedstock of 30 tons of biomass. It will also produce biochar and methane.
The plant is being put up by a joint venture of Watomo Energies Ltd and Biezel Green Energy with an investment of Rs 24 crore. Watomo Energies, headquartered in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh; Biezel Green is a company promoted by Prof Preetam Singh, who teaches at the IIT BHU.
Biezel Green is the technology partner. The company owns the technology for a 'thermally accelerated anerobic digestion (TAD) reactor' that can produce hydrogen, methane and biochar from biomass. An earlier post in this blog has a detailed description of this technology.
Watomo Energies describes itself as a "consulting, marketing, implementation and project management company', and is more like a farmer-producer organization.
Biezel Green will own 50 per cent in the yet-to-be named joint venture; the other 50 per cent will come actually come from interested farmers.
Prof Singh, who was a student of Prof John Goodenough, who won the Nobel Prize in 1999 for his discovery of the Lithium-ion chemistry for batteries. Prof Singh told Business Line today that the joint venture intends to get the Khandwa plant on-stream in July this year, coinciding with Prof Goodenough's 100th birth month.
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