Kolon Global Completes 'Carbon Reduction Green Hydrogen Production Integrated Demonstration Plant'

Kolon Global announced on the 30th that it held a completion ceremony for the 'Carbon Reduction Type Green Hydrogen Production Integrated Demonstration Plant' at the Jungnang Water Reclamation Center in Seongdong-gu, Seoul.

Panoramic view of the integrated demonstration plant for carbon reduction-type green hydrogen production.
[Photo by Kolon Global]

About 20 officials attended the completion ceremony, including Seongkyun Lim, Executive Director of Kolon Global, Daeyeol Jung, Executive Director of BioX, Suyeon Lee, Ph.D. at the Korea Institute of Energy Research, and Sangcheol Jeong, Ph.D. at the Korea Testing Laboratory.

Kolon Global formed an industry-academic-research consortium with BioX, the Korea Institute of Energy Research, the Korea Testing Laboratory, and the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, participating in the Ministry of Environment's 'Development Project for Eco-friendly New Materials and Process Technologies Derived from Wildlife' since 2021. They are promoting the development of green hydrogen production technology using high-concentration organic waste.

The integrated demonstration plant completed this time is an experimental facility equipped with a pretreatment process for high-concentration organic wastewater. It plans to conduct long-term operational stability evaluations of the integrated process for green hydrogen production, as well as assessments of hydrogen production purity and yield.

Based on the experimental results from the demonstration plant, Kolon Global plans to finalize green hydrogen production technology using a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) system by 2025.

Upon successful technology development, it is expected that domestic organic waste treatment facilities, which mainly produce biogas such as methane, will be converted into green hydrogen production facilities, enabling the production of high-purity green hydrogen from organic waste such as food waste and wastewater.

A Kolon Global official stated, "We expect that green hydrogen production technology using microbial electrolysis will be further advanced through this integrated demonstration plant," adding, "We will continue to expand eco-friendly energy and resource recovery projects linked to environmental infrastructure."

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