BioReformation: Overview
Low Cost Hydrogen Production from Renewable Resources:
- High purity hydrogen without CO or CO2 greenhouse gas by-products
- Proprietary, patented process
- Low cost hydrogen production
- Localized production eliminates expensive distribution
- Reformation of multiple fuels demonstrated
- One-step, low temperature reaction
Bioreformation is a premier technology to generate distributed, merchant grade hydrogen economically from multiple feedstocks including conventional as well as renewable (i.e. biomass).
Patented by ECD, bioreformation is a simple one step process to produce high purity hydrogen for use in common industrial applications or for high efficiency power generation. In bioreformation the hydrogen production pathway is altered with the addition of a base material, such as NaOH, to produce essentially one gas hydrogen (>99.5%) and a solid carbonate salt instead of CO or CO2 gases. Bioreformation produces hydrogen in a one-step reaction without the need for extensive and costly purification methods, such as water gas shift (WGS), pressure swing adsorption (PSA) or membrane separation, making it easier to use the hydrogen in an array of industrial applications.
The bioreformation process offers lower capital and operating cost for hydrogen production compared to steam reformation. Preliminary cost analysis has found the cost to produce hydrogen in the bioreformation process to be ~$2-3/kg H2, which is significantly lower than delivered compressed gas cylinders.