It’s a first mistake.
Between 2002 and 2005, engineer with technology groups trying to call on new electric bowls for steel steel when they see. ElectroNese carbon, rather than break down, grow big.
The team has not been deliberately made what a pyrolysis reaction, which actually burned an oxygen. In this case, the furnace became the methane separation as hydrogen with pure hydrogen and pure carbon. The team reports the invention of internal and then, on the basis, forget about it.
“Back again, no one cares because nobody treats pyrolysis, about hydrogen,” Massimililiano Pieri, Tulum energy CEO, telling techcrroch. The experiment is commonly reached for the next 20 years.
But a few years ago, investors for the VC Techint Group, Teched, Print landscapes for new ways to produce hydrogen from methaneously ordinary pollution.
The Techint Investment doesn’t have to look away. “People in the company realized, ‘But we already have. We have this discourse,'” said Pieri.
Become a tight conglomerate of the idea and spun out the tulum to repress uninterrelation to the vibrant business. Recently, Tulum closed $ 27 million seeds led by TDK Ventures and capital Venture CDP, the company tells her techcrroch. Doral energy ventures, my mico technology equity, teceptergy onses involved.
Tulum is not just the start of the pursuit of methane pyrolysis as a way to produce hydrogen. Modern hydrogen, molten machine, and monolith includes tulum competitors. The reaction attracts the attention to produce hydrogen from cheap natural gas, available without carbon dioxide emissions. In pyrolysis, methane damaged due to no oxygen, only one of the products are hydrogen and dust gas from solid carbon, which can be sold.
But Tulum is different from several ways. For one, no need to use expensive catalysts to support pyrolysis reactions, requiring competitors. In use Electric Arc furnace, Tulum also uses many – if modified – technology.
“This gives you a big head start,” said the Pieri.
Tulum will use seed funds to build pilot plants in Mexico with existing technological groups. If all running, steel plant can buy hydrogen and carbon directly from Tulum to be used in operation.
Pieri says that in full-scale production, commercial plants will produce two tons of hydrogen and 600 tonnes of carbon daily.
Tulum hopes the commercial scale plant will produce hydrogen which is about $ 1.50 in the US, where electricity is both cheap. At that price, it only 50 cents more From most hydrogen made from natural gas now, and significantly experienced several familial hydrogen methods. That before the company sells carbon that has been made.
Not bad for an unreasonable error.
