HAZER GROUP LIMITED Hazer Group announced the completion of construction and commissioning activities at the Hazer Commercial Demonstration Project (CDP) located at Woodman Point, Western Australia. The Hazer Commercial Demonstration Project is the first fully integrated demonstration of the Hazer Process. The facility will process biogas produced from the treatment of wastewater at the Woodman Point Water Recovery Facility to produce hydrogen and graphite.
The CDP is a key step in demonstrating the scale-up and commercial potential of the Hazer technology, a word leading example of methane pyrolysis, a low emission and cost-effective method to produce clean hydrogen. Over the last week, construction verification activities have been completed to allow the finalisation of commissioning activities by construction partner, Primero Group. With the successful completion of these activities, the first biogas feed is currently being introduced to the CDP marking the start of the first planned phase of operational testing of the CDP.
With the completion of construction and commissioning, the plant will be handed over to the Hazer operations team to continue the first phase of the planned testing program. The first phase of the testing program will be carried out at low temperatures using a temporary carbon steel reactor (the "cold" reactor). This will allow trialling of the gas conditioning, solids handling, process control, safety and utilities systems. This phase will also deliver initial process data to de-risk the start-up of the second phase, the hot commissioning and full operation of the CDP.
The planned rigorous testing schedule will demonstrate the continuous operation of the process with the full integration of all required sub-systems for scale-up to commercial operations. The program will derive the engineering data (including confirmation of fluidisation characteristics at larger scale, heat-transfer parameters and carbon emission parameters) necessary to support the scale-up of the process. The full operation of the project will demonstrate the safe continuous production of low-emission hydrogen and graphite.
