The end of January saw Czech clean technology company 2JCP announce that it will work with Britain’s KEW Technology to “engineer and manufacture a unique CCH₂ (carbon capture and hydrogen purification) plant that can decompose synthetic gas into very pure hydrogen, industrial hydrogen and CO₂ in the process of gasification of biomass or waste.”

The process technology itself is KEW Technology’s – a tempting acronym would be KEWT – and operates using a water-gas shift reaction. 2JCP will work on engineering the pilot plant this year, with KEW Technologies to then offer the technology commercially, and globally, marketing it towards a more circular economy.