Novel hydrogen heating gains first customer
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German gas technology company Flusys has been named by Hyting as the first customer of its catalytic hydrogen heating system.
The 10kW heating system, which has been developed for industrial and commercial customers, is due for installation and commissioning in early 2025 in Flusys’ newly-established production facility for precision pumps in Offenbach, Germany.
The 1,000m3 production space will be heated using hydrogen from a nearby supplier.
Tim Hannig, founder and managing director of Hyting, a German hydrogen heating startup, said he is certain that hydrogen will help decarbonise the heating sector.
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“By radically simplifying the use of hydrogen’s thermal energy we developed an innovative hydrogen-fuelled heating technology that is simple, safe, efficient and clean and that will lead the way.”
Hyting’s concept is intended as a simple, safe, efficient and clean way to generate heat directly from hydrogen, without combustion.
The company has developed a forced-air heating system – on which patents are pending – that uses a molecular exothermic catalytic process to turn hydrogen and oxygen from the air into heat and which does not produce any CO2, NOx or particulate emissions, with the only by-product water.
Furthermore, it does not use flammable concentrations of hydrogen at any operating point.
The technology is said to use many proven components from the heating and automotive industries.
It is also modular and scalable in design, with outputs of 10-300kW for configuration for different heating applications, initially to be targeted to commercial and industrial applications but also including residential buildings down to heating systems for commercial vehicles.
Carsten Neutzer, CEO of Flusys, a specialist in fluid system technology with years of experience with hydrogen technologies, said the company was immediately fascinated and excited with the heating technology.
“We hope to be able to give a boost to this new CO2-free technology,” he promised.
