BEEAH Group moves ahead with MENA's first waste-to-hydrogen project

UAE's BEEAH Group, UK's Chinook Sciences and Japan's Air Water have agreed to team up to produce fuel-cell grade green hydrogen from waste wood and plastic in the Gulf country.

The three companies are planning to set up a consortium to build a waste-to-hydrogen plant in Sharjah which will be the first of this kind in the Middle East. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in Japan, BEEAH said on Wednesday.

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The partnership builds on Chinook Sciences' expertise in waste-to-fuel technologies, BEAAH's know-how in waste management and Air Water's Hydrogen Refinement technology.

Using Chinook Sciences' RODECS pyrolysis and gasification process, the plant will produce syngas which will be then fed into the hydrogen refinement system to get fuel-cell grade green hydrogen. A green hydrogen dispensing station with the capacity to fuel several vehicles will be built on the site of the plant.

The plan for the waste-to-hydrogen plant in Sharjah was unveiled by BEEAH Group and Chinook Sciences Green in May 2021. Later the same year, the two companies began work on the development plans.

BEEAH and renewables developer Masdar are behind the UAE's first commercial-scale waste-to-energy plant which went online in Sharjah earlier this year. The facility enables Sharjah to divert up to 300,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste away from landfills every year, and generate 30 MW of energy.