Project Status:
Development | Feasibility Study
Organizations Involved:
Klean Industries and other confidential particpants
Services:
Design & Engineering, Due Diligence, Component Supply, Turn-Key Projects
The Challenge:
Every industry that is moving toward hydrogen is asking the same question, and it is not about the molecule itself. It is about where the hydrogen is going to come from, and whether it can be made at a cost that does not depend on subsidies to survive. Green hydrogen is only made with clean power, and clean power alone already makes it expensive. So the transition has stalled wherever the answer is simply to buy electrolyzers and pay retail for the electricity, because the economics stop working and the project never leaves the spreadsheet.
The Solution:
Klean ties hydrogen to the one feedstock that already has value built into its handling, using technology that exists today. Municipal solid waste costs money to landfill, and it rots into methane the moment it is buried. Klean runs that waste through an Advanced Thermal Conversion process to produce clean power, and feeds that power straight into a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer to make green hydrogen as the headline fuel. The plant is fully containerized and pipe to pipe, ships anywhere and stands up on a simple foundation, which is the reason a hydrogen supply can finally be owned by a city, an island or a regional operator instead of only a utility with a five year concrete construction budget. Metals are recovered for recycling and the ash leaves as road base and construction material, so the feedstock pays twice.
The Outcome:
A single line processes 150 tonnes of waste a day and delivers 5 megawatts of clean power and 518 tonnes of green hydrogen a year. The 300 tonne configuration doubles that to 10 megawatts and more than 1,000 tonnes of hydrogen annually, ready for the road transport and mobility markets that are already switching over. The inversion is what makes it bankable: landfill charges to take waste away, while this plant turns that same waste into a fuel the transport market pays for. Disposal costs become fuel revenue, and that is the difference between a region that pays to bury its problem and one that sells it.
Why it matters:
The hydrogen transition does not need another concept. It needs supply, at scale, at a price, delivered by a system a developer can actually own and phase in as demand grows. Klean provides exactly that, and it is not a pilot or a roadmap for some future decade. Every piece, the thermal conversion, the electrolyzer, the modular containerized delivery, is technology that exists today and is proven in operation. Where conventional waste to energy stops at electricity, this continues through to the fuel that mobility is currently converging on, and it does so without leaning on the subsidies that keep other green hydrogen routes theoretical.
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