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One of the UK's top 16 fast growing cleantech start up companies selected by the Technology Strategy Board and the UK Trade and Investment for the Clean and Cool Mission to USA.

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Welcome

RE Hydrogen formed in 2009, have 6 patents pending, ongoing projects worth £1 million and have won 9 competitive grants and awards we have built significant industrial partnerships and have a strong management team.

RE Hydrogen has two breakthrough technologies enabling hydrogen production and compression resulting in greater longevity, increased reliability and efficiency at lower cost. Our business model is B2B (Business to Business) based on selling electrolysers and gas compressors. 

Problems

Due to the lack of small hydrogen compressors in the 1-10bar range it is industry practice to build 10 bar pressurised electrolysers, which increases the cost by 70% compared to our atmospheric electrolysers. But these 10 bar electrolysers still need a costly compressor to reach to any meaningful storage pressure e.g. 350 bar or beyond.

Solutions

We have solved this problem with our own compressor coupled with our electrolyser from 1bar input pressure up to 350 bar output pressure in a
single stage at a much lower cost. 


Separately our compressor will be used to clean and dry syngas and biogas producing bio-methane for gas-grid injection.
 


USP
 

-  70% lower cost atmospheric electrolyser & longer lifespan for variable operation.
-  70% lower cost gas compressor, 1 bar up to 350bar compression ratio in a single stage. built to last, greater efficiency. Unique gas cleaning capability.
-  Our cost of green hydrogen = £3.6/kg H2 ($5.6/ kg). The market price of hydrogen varies from £11/kg to £110/kg H($17/kg to $158/ kg).

- Significantly lower cost, 50% smaller footprint, 3 times longer life, waste free cleaning of biogas by our compressor, than current gas cleaning methods.

- After producing 99% pure bio-methane from biogas as the primary product, we can produce highly concentrated (>95%) CO2, a valuable by-product.
  
Market

The
4.size of the existing addressable Electrolyser-Hydrogen market is £10.5 billion/year ($15 billion/year) within the overall hydrogen market of £150 billion/year ($237 billion/year). But our technologies will increase the current addressable market further due to its much lower cost and high reliability. Additionally the size of the existing oxygen market is of the similar size of the hydrogen market.

This compressor can clean H2S and CO2 from biogas and remove moisture without a conventional dryer to produce high quality, dry bio-methane up to 99% purity for gas-grid injection at low cost. This compressor can also remove tar from syngas produced from gasification plants.

Separately the market size of our gas compressor and the industrial gas cleaning market is even bigger than the total markets of hydrogen and oxygen gas combined. In summary we have several hundreds billion US dollar markets worldwide for both of our products independently and in together.

Customers

We are in discussion with customers for large scale and multiple deployment of our low cost electrolysers in the UK and overseas markets. We are also in discussion with businesses for large scale biogas compression and cleaning projects for gas-grid injection applications.

Partners

RE Hydrogen has several large industrial partners for various ongoing projects. We are in discussion with several companies to enter into the international markets via technology licensing for mass production.

We believe to create a major demand for our breakthrough, affordable and long lasting products by offering innovative schemes for the end users.

About us

RE Hydrogen was formed in 2009; we have won nine competitive grants for projects worth over £1 million; we have six patents pending and established industrial partnership with large companies; a strong management team is striving to exploit the vast commercial potential of the company.

Electrolysers


RE Hydrogen has developed an advanced ambient pressure electrolyser using plastic materials, ensuring easy modular manufacturing. The electrodes use an innovative and non precious metal catalyst and can operate under variable and intermittent mode for unlimited on-off switching cycle. RE Hydrogen's offerring include 5kW, 25kW, 100kW and even bigger electrolysers in due course.

Due to their low capital cost of the equipment the cost of hydrogen is mainly influenecd by the electricity price. The electricity contributes 60% of the cost of hydrogen for RE Hydrogen's system. But for conventional 10bar pressurised electrolysers the electricity contributes only 22% of the cost of hydrogen. Therefore cheaper or free electricity will bring greater reduction in hydrogen price via RE Hydrogen's electrolysers than conventional systems.

Compressors

RE Hydrogen can pressurise hydrogen from ambient pressure up to 350 bar in a single stage at a very low capital cost. The combination of their advanced atmospheric electrolyser and this innovative compressor offer a major breakthrough for low cost hydrogen production and storage at higher efficiency, durability.

Bio Gas Cleaning

RE Hydrogen's compressor is suitable for compressing any gas. The unique process facilitates cleaning of H2S and CO2 from biogas at a much lower capital cost and operational cost than conventional gas cleaning methods. The scalability is very straight forward even up to thousands of cubic meter of gas flow rate per hour in MW scale applications.

Management Team

Dr Amitava Roy, CEO & CTO
Amitava formed RE Hydrogen in 2009 based on 15 years experience on electrolysers, fuel cells and renewable energy. He is the inventor of 6 patents and has won nine grants and awards at RE Hydrogen on this innovative electrolyser technology for multiple projects worth over £1 million and established several key industrial partnerships. He obtained his PhD from Loughborough University, UK (2002-2006) on electrolyser and fuel cells and built the UK's first wind-hydrogen energy storage scheme of 8 MWh capacity using 'conventional' electrolyser as part of his studies. He then worked as the Manager for AFC Energy Plc from the inception of the company (2006-2010) to develop ultra low cost fuel cells leading towards commercialisation. He has provided extensive consultancy services in the UK and Europe to the large energy supply companies, investment banks and commercial organisations via his previous company Bryte Energy (2005-2010) as one of the founding Directors. Amitava was a Lecturer at the National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, India (1995-2002). He is currently a Fellow at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK and a regular reviewer of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and the Journal of Power and Energy. 

Mr Jeff Slade, Strategic and
Business Development Director
In excess of 30 years senior management experience within the energy/renewable energy, civil engineering and drilling sectors working with major UK and international organisations. Proficient at reducing costs and providing strategic leadership which has improved margins, market penetration and growth. Pragmatic with a considerable amount of common sense and experience. Effective team leader with ability to think outside the box, consistently identifying and exploiting new business opportunities whilst formulating and reporting strategic development plans at board level. Effective communicator and contract negotiator. Recently engaged in acquiring contracts relating to carbon reduction and energy management in order to comply with CRC requirements for major organisations including shopping malls and retail outlets. Clients include Guildhall properties, Homerton Hospital, British Land and Gatwick Airport. Managing for MAP Environmental the initial exemplar project for Saville’s covering a large scale PV and FITs initiative which involved  major trials for PV installation on housing association properties which will result in 40MW pa being installed covering financial and technical review. Advising on new MSC12 accreditation standards for PV installation to BBA. Evaluation of 3X5MW Solar farms in Eastern Romania including management and training package. Project evaluation of 2.3MW solar and CHP plant in Egypt for a food processing plant. Early Career: Director Creative Environmental Networks Ltd (2008-2010), Independent Consultant J S Associates (2004-2008), General Manager Orchard Management Services (2000-2004), General Manager NUS now NUS Consulting (1992-2000), General Manager Brokke UK Ltd (1990-1992), General Manager EIMA Region Kneeble Drilling (1984-1990).

Mr David Weaver,
Strategic Advisor
Senior Business Leader and highly qualified energy professional with global experience at Chairman/Chief Executive/Managing Director level of company growth turn-around and change management. Key strengths include commercially astute, experienced in business turn around and growth; Particularly successful in multi-cultural environments; Creative thinker, excited by finding solutions to difficult problems; Sensitive and compassionate leader with strong motivational skills; Involvement in mergers, floatations, acquisitions and deal negotiations; In depth knowledge of the energy sector, especially Renewable Energy and Nuclear; Experienced Energy Professional, Renewables, Oil and Gas, Nuclear in particular; Chartered Engineer, founder Institute Petroleum Engineers incorporated by Royal Charter and Fellow of Chartered Energy Institute. Career History: Director, PHOENIX COMMODITIES LTD (August 2011 to Current). Director, GSS ENERGY Ltd (July 2003 - Current). PX HOLDINGS Ltd (April 2008 - Current), Non executive Director representing Deutsche Bank's 49% interest. Early Career: BP PLC (1999-June 2003) Managing Director, Europe, BP Gas Power and Renewables. CMS ENERGY INC (1994 - 1999) Chief Executive Officer, CMS is one of the USA's principal energy utilities during the 1990's - market cap $13billion. MISSION ENERGY (1992 -1994), Managing Director and Head of Asia, International Division of Southern California Edison. SCOTTISH POWER NEW VENTURES (1990 -1992) General Manager & Head. NATIONAL POWER PLC (1989 - 1990) General Manager -West Thurrock Power. UK ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY PRIVATISATION (1988 - 1989) General Manager. CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY HONG KONG  1981 - 1986, Project Manager Castle Peak (Largest Energy Facility in Asia).

Mr Bharat Thakrar,
Financial Advisor

Bharat, is a qualified accountant and has been advising RE Hydrogen since the formation of the company in all financial aspects including accounting, taxation  forecasting and various other administrative matters. Bharat has significant experience in financial reporting and taxation by working in different business sectors including manufacturing, property, global shipping company and currently working for a publicly listed construction company. Career History: COLAS LTD (Apr 2009–To-date), Tax & Systems Accountant: Colas Limited operates throughout the UK as a service provider to the highways and airfields sectors. Early Career: SHURFLO LTD (May 2007 – Mar 2009), Financial Controller: SHURflo, is part of the Water Technologies Group of Pentair, Inc, a diversified operating and publicly held $3.5 billion company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. CP SHIPS (UK), (2001– Apr 2007), Group Consolidation Accountant; One of the world's leading container-shipping companies across Australasia, Latin America, Asia and the Transatlantic with a Group annual turnover of USD$ 2.5 billion, employing approximately 5000 employees worldwide. More than 80% of its activity is North American exports or imports. CP SHIPS (UK)  - CANADA MARITIME, 1986 – 2001, Finance Manager, Canada Maritime was part of CP Ships (UK), the container shipping arm of Canadian Pacific with a turnover in excess of US$500 million company specialised in moving containerised cargo between North America and Europe.

Autodesk Cleantech Partner

RE Hydrogen has been awarded by Autodesk under their Clean Tech Partner Program with various free software packages such as Autodesk Product Design Suite Ultimate 2013, Autodesk Inventor Publisher 2013. RE Hydrogen acknowledges this timely support which will accelerate their advanced design, prototyping and process simulation.

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Clean and Cool Mission

RE Hydrogen has presented at the Clean and Cool Mission to the USA in March 2012, as one of the Sixteen Best of British Cleantech, high growth start-ups companies, selected by the Technology strategy Board and UK Trade and Investment.

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Download Press Release: Clean and Cool Mission

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Guy Pattison explains about Clean and Cool Mission

Advanced Electrolyser project

RE Hydrogen has started a new collaborative project funded by the Technology Strategy Board from the 2nd of April 2012 for 3 years. This project aims technology development to real world applications by field trial.


EIS Investment Opportunity

RE Hydrogen has received EIS Approval under the UK Govt's Enterprise Investment Scheme. We are currently open for investment under this scheme. More information please contact at info@rehydrogen.com or at 0044 - 78 388 72 678;   0044 - 1483 275 398.

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EIS Investment Prospectus (refer investor page)

9 Grants and Awards

2012

Selected as one of the Clean and Cool Mission Group companies: Supported by the UK Trade and Investment and the Technology Strategy Board.

£208,500 funding from the Technology Strategy Board.
2011-2014
£208,000 funding from the Technology Strategy Board (RABH2 Project, www.rabh2.co.uk)

RABH2 Project: Press Release

2011-2013
£120,000 funding from Finance South East Ltd (http://www.financesoutheast.com/)
2010-2011
£25,000 under the “Innovate10” competition from the Technology Strategy Board
2010-2011

£3,000 support for Intellectual Property Audit from the Intellectual Property Office.

2009-2010
£25,000 for hydrogen enriched pyrolytic bio oil from the Technology Strategy Board.

2011

2010

Support from the Carbon Trust on independent Market due dilligence.

Rushlight Awards Commended 2010.

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Innovate10 competition: Click to see the video

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