InfigoLabs Technology Applications

Hydrox Cycle® enables renewable storage of green hydrogen and oxygen gases, for later production of steam using the Hydrox Combustion Technology®. Using a steam turbine enables a step increase in round trip efficiency compared to solar thermal plants that use molten salt storage. Moreover, InfigoLabs solution need not be restricted to sun-belt regions, with very limited land use requirements.

InfigoLabs Hydrox Combustion Technology® based Steam Cracker eliminates and replaces the entire radiant section (problematic heat transfer tubes), thus eliminating 20~60 day de-coking interruptions (directly increasing uptime) and achieving higher temperatures that maximise ethylene yield (12% ~ 15% increased yield), while completely decarbonising this process, creating high-quality carbon credits. Additional revenue stream: Zero-carbon footprint turquoise hydrogen for decarbonising transport.

Operating a cement calciner and kiln on heat provided by the Hydrox Combustion Technology® produces a mixture of steam and CO2 from limestone calcination.  This off-gas when cooled, results in recycled water for electrolysis, leaving behind a by-product: lowest-cost pure CO2 for synthetic aviation fuel (SAF) production, without the need for any expensive post-combustion capture processes.

The Hydrox Combustion Technology®, using a refractory-lined reactor, can produce a mixture of very high temperature hydrogen (~900C, with 12~14% steam) as required for green direct reduced iron / green steel production, eliminating the need for exotic metallic heat exchangers for heating green hydrogen to DRI shaft temperatures.  Such heat exchangers are a major techno-economic risk, given exposure of metals to high temperature hydrogen.

As the world decarobonises the transport and power generation sectors, it demands minerals and ores to be processed at unprecedented rates. Many of these processes require minerals calcination at high temperatures.  Hydrox Combustion Technology® provides fully decarbonised heat for calcination of all critical minerals required for the green economy. It also decarbonises current calcination operations of any minerals processing facility.

The InfigoLabs steam cracking technology, with its refractory-lined reactor receiving steam from the Hydrox Combustion Technology® can entirely decarbonise the steam methane reforming process for the fertilizer industry. Elimination of the entire radiant section of the steam methane reformer increases the reliability of the process, while achieving the lowest specific energy consumption.

InfigoLabs technology can slash the Levelised Cost of green Ammonia (LCOA). Hydrox Combustion Technology® can either enable cost-effective cycling of the ammonia synthesis and/or substantially reduce the levelised cost of heat input for operating major rotating machinery drives involved with the ASU, nitrogen compressor, syngas compressor and ammonia compressor during periods of non-availability of affordable green electricity.

For the hard-to-abate sector that must decarbonise economically, InfigoLabs' technology, delivers electrification of high temperature heat at high efficiency (>92%). Unlike other power-to-heat solutions (e.g., thermal block storage or electric coil heating) the Hydrox Cycle® delivers sustained thermal energy that does not vary in temperature or heat content and incorporates cost-effective green energy storage in the form of gaseous stores, reducing the levelised cost of heat.