Philippe TORRION

Former Director

Jean-Paul
REICH

Former CSO

Bertrand CHAUVET

CEO

Patrick ACHARD

Director of Research

Pierre CASANOVA

CEO DDH Partners

Gérard Marie
PAPIEROK

Virbac

The Potential Of H2

Hydrogen offers a versatile, clean and flexible energy vector that enables to convert and store energy as a renewable gas. With good energy density by weight (nearly 3 times more than gasoline), hydrogen provides a unique way to decarbonize segments in power, transport, buildings and industry, which would otherwise be difficult to do.

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Hydrogen is essential for Europe to achieve the decarbonization objective since, when combined with a fuel cell, it can generate electrical power emitting only water as byproduct. Therefore, the use of hydrogen as alternative fuel will reduce CO2 emissions in many sectors (up to 34% of global CO2 emissions could be abated using hydrogen - Bloomberg NEF 28.5.2020)

Delivery Issues

The big challenge that currently hinders the deployment of hydrogen as a real solution for carbon-free mobility is how to transport and storage it in a safe and economic way.

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Even under high pressure, the most usual way of transporting the element, hydrogen has a low density, which increases costs and greenhouse gas emissions related to its transportation.

The ideal solution for mass delivery has to:

1) be a liquid, to take advantage of the existing fossil liquid fuels infrastructures.

2) be non-dangerous and stable to be easily and safely handled. 

3) contain high hydrogen density.

 4) be cost competitive.

Our Solution: HydroSil

HySiLabs has developed and patented a disruptive hydrogen carrier called HydroSil, a liquid silicon hydride derivative, which is stable, non-toxic, non-explosive, non-dangerous and has a long storage life. HydroSil enables to release hydrogen at the consumption site, on-demand and without requiring any external energy input.

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HydroSil allows the use of the same logistic infrastructure as existing fossil fuel, thus revolutionizing the hydrogen delivery market. HydroSil’s high hydrogen content enables to transport 7 times more hydrogen in a single truck than with high-pressure H2 gas, very much reducing the operational costs for transport and the related emissions.