Wood Waste to Hydrogen: Mote’s H2 Gambit in California Announced
by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) In California, Mote announced its first facility to convert wood waste into hydrogen fuel while capturing, utilizing, and sequestering CO2 emissions from the process.
Mote expects to produce approximately seven million kilograms of carbon-negative hydrogen and remove 150,000 metric tons of CO2 from the air annually. Mote expects to start hydrogen production starting as soon as 2024.
It’s estimated that more than 500 million metric tons of wood and agricultural waste are generated every year in the U.S., which today is either disposed of via natural decay, landfills, or open-air burn, all of which return carbon to the atmosphere.
The Project location
Located near Bakersfield, the Mote facility aims to assist California in recycling the 54 million metric tons of wood waste generated annually. The focus on carbon removal and storage sets Mote’s technology apart from other clean hydrogen projects as Mote’s product delivers hydrogen with a producer sale price and carbon intensity score significantly lower than its competitors.
Mote is joined by Fluor Corporation and SunGas Renewables, Inc. to develop its new plant. The engineering firm Flour will support the integration of proven equipment into the facility. In addition, SunGas Renewables a subsidiary of GTI International, has entered into an Engineering Services Agreement with Mote to provide its gasification systems to the Mote California Central Valley Project.
CarbonBuilt may use Mote’s CO2 for mineralization
Mote is also in discussions with CarbonCure Technologies on the potential of permanently storing its CO2 in concrete via CarbonCure’s carbon removal technologies, deployed in hundreds of CO2 mineralization systems at concrete plants worldwide. Through this biomass-to-hydrogen process, Mote contributes to reversing climate change through the functional removal of carbon from the air and putting it deep underground or permanently storing it in concrete at construction sites.
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Earlier this year, Mote was selected for the inaugural class of Rice University’s Clean Energy Accelerator. They closed a seed round this fall with support from Preston-Werner Ventures, Counteract, and investor Joffre Baker.
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While the components for Mote’s process exist and have been commercially operating in various industries, Mote has integrated them to maximize energy efficiency and scalability to achieve carbon reduction at a lower cost than current models of carbon removal. READ MORE
World’s First Carbon Removal Plant Converting Wood Waste to Hydrogen (Enviroment + Energy Leader)
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