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Proteum isn’t alone in its quest to turn ethanol into clean hydrogen. Just last year, Shell signed a deal with two Brazil ethanol plants to produce hydrogen.

In addition to hydrogen fuel for over-theroad transportation, the modular units created by Proteum can produce hydrogen for sustainable aviation fuel or for low-carbon ammonia fertilizer products, as well.

And then there is the variable that the entire ethanol industry is following: carbon intensity score. The best-case scenario for inputs used to create the hydrogen would net a negative CI score. With biogas combustion fuel or waste heat recovery in the mix, Proteum’s liquid H2 can have a CI score of 8.7 g/MJ.

Tree and his team can serve several markets, utilize a variety of feedstocks and produce a variety of highly-desirable, incentivized end-products. But it's the ethanol sector they are trying to align with, he says. It is a new place to send ethanol gallons, his team believes, and it is a continuation of ethanol’s momentum leading carbon offset efforts or the decarbonization of transportation molecules. It’s not an entire hydrogen revolution or move away from one type of production method or use of feedstock. It is something different, sort of a gain by doing more with an existing asset (tech and ethanol). “We like to call it an energy addition.”

Author: Luke Geiver Contact: editor@bbiinternational.com