Neology Hydrogen SA

Green hydrogen is the solution for a zero-carbon fuel. However, it is conventionally stored as a high-pressure gas, or as a liquid at -253°C, requiring high safety precautions and high energy costs, losing 28% or 47% of the stored energy respectively. High pressure hydrogen becomes explosive. Existing hydrogen storage and transportation solutions suffer from high costs, inefficiencies, leakage (1%-5% daily!) and inability to adequately store and transport the resources – in addition to requiring expensive equipment. These factors hinder hydrogen from becoming a viable energy vector in raw form. As a result, commercial transportation is far from having a suitable zero-carbon solution.

At Neology we are developing a commercially viable ammonia cracking technology that will transform ammonia into hydrogen to supply the feedstock of fuel cells directly on-board vehicles. This is the vision that Neology has set for commercial vehicles.

This enables ammonia to be used throughout the supply chain (instead of compressed hydrogen gas). Ammonia is a widely available non-explosive, low-flammability chemical, which is easy to store and transport under atmospheric pressure and temperature with inexpensive equipment.

Neology’s technology is realized through a 2-stage thermochemical process, first with thermochemical cracking of ammonia to hydrogen using a low-temperature catalyst, followed by hydrogen separation membranes purifying hydrogen to the highest purity grades.

Heavy-duty vehicles
Stationary applications