Future Energy Exports CRC Enters into Agreement with GenH2 Corp to Demonstrate High-Efficiency Liquefaction

Future Energy Exports Cooperative Research Center (FEnEx CRC) and GenH2 Corp announced that they have entered into an agreement to engineer and demonstrate a high-efficiency hydrogen liquefier with a production capacity up to 100 kg/day that will support both organizations’ ongoing efforts to lower the cost of hydrogen production, storage and export.  The collaboration will focus on critical research using mixed refrigerants for hydrogen liquefaction. 

Hydrogen is a clean energy source that does not generate greenhouse gases when used as fuel for power generation, such as fuel cell vehicles. Industry analysts and governments both anticipate its broad adoption in transportation as well as other applications.

Eric May, CEO of the FEnEx CRC, said, “Our intention is to use the liquefier we build with GenH2 to validate the process simulations and thermodynamic models we have developed; then we will be in a better position to design improved, high efficiency mixed refrigerant cycles to operate at much larger scales than the one used to validate it.  The hydrogen liquefier will be located at our Kwinana Energy Transformation Hub (KETH) in Western Australia, with funding support from the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and the Western Australian Government’s Investment Attraction Fund.”

Greg Gosnell, CEO of GenH2, commented, “We are very proud to participate in this important initiative to advance research focused on improving efficiencies in hydrogen liquefaction.  It is indeed an honor to provide our world-class hydrogen liquefier to this innovative research organization to support an important project with the potential to advance the global industry.”

The hydrogen liquefier will be driven by GenH2’s proprietary reverse Brayton cycle refrigerator for industry-leading liquefaction efficiency. The FEnEx CRC team will collaborate with GenH2 engineers to design and implement the modifications needed to test the application of mixed refrigerants in hydrogen liquefaction to further improve process efficiency. 

FEnEx CRC | https://www.fenex.org.au

GenH2 | www.genh2.com