United Utilities: The Sustainable Biogas, Graphene and Hydrogen LOOP Showcase

Описание: Want to find out how you could be creating a circular economy through recycling biogas at your treatment plants?

Join Spring, United Utilities and Levidian to find out more about the exciting LOOP project being demonstrated at the United Utilities Manchester Bioresources Centre. The project is showing how the water industry can play an active role in the production of graphene and hydrogen from a fully sustainable feed material.

The project, funded through the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) Hydrogen BECCS Innovation Programme (H2BECCS), takes biogas, produced by anaerobic digestion, and breaks down the methane within the biogas to carbon (graphene) and hydrogen. This is a significant step forward for both the water industry and the recipients of these products whether that be automotive, construction or large-scale fuel users such as industrial smelting and large transportation systems.

Phase one of the project expanded upon the current use of the LOOP technology owned by Levidian. Levidian already use the LOOP to crack methane in natural gas into its constituent atoms, hydrogen and carbon in the form of graphene. This is done through their patented low temperature, low pressure system without the need for catalysts or additives. Led by United Utilities, phase 2 of the LOOP project has further investigated and designed the use of a LOOP for the conversion of methane to graphene and hydrogen using a fully sustainable biogas feed source from a United Utilities sludge treatment system.

This showcase recording will provide viewers with the background, operational learnings and the outcomes from our demonstration and will look to create further discussion regarding the use of biogas as a feedstock for the creation of alternative raw materials across multiple industries.