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Ways2H’s patent-pending RefHynery converts mixed organic waste and plastics into clean hydrogen and permanently sequestered carbon commodities — enabling local waste management solutions and decarbonized energy without needing renewable electricity.
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Ways2H is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clean Energy Enterprises, present in the United States (California), in the European Union (France) and in India. We engineer, build and sell systems that process waste into hydrogen and carbon products, supporting circular economy outcomes, climate remediation and local energy independence.
The team has a 60+ years cumulative experience in gasification, hydrogen, and chemical processing across USA, Japan, Europe, China, India and more.
RefHyneries produce commodities that address various markets such as clean mobility, ammonia production, industrial hydrogen, on-site power for buildings and battery charging.
Municipal solid waste, biomass, medical waste, food waste, plastics, wood, paper, and landfill-bound recyclables.
Patent-pending thermochemical architecture using industry-proven components (Vapolyser™, WGSR, high-temperature reformer, steam boiler, gas drying & cleaning) designed to maximize hydrogen yield, and facilitate CO2 capture.
The RefHynery's process has been specifically designed to address conventional gasifiers' primary challenge, poor tolerance for feedstock quality variations. The RefHynery is inherently stable in its operation parameters, operating virtually regardless of the feedstock's Heating Value, as long as it is chemically organic.
In addition to hydrogen, the RefHynery's direct output product, the carbon and oxygen contained in the feedstock is refined throughout the process and will be converted into various valuable commodities such as ethylene, graphene/graphite, carbonates, concrete additives, baking soda, formic acid, bicarbonate, and more. Selection of the suitable carbon product is done at Project Assessment phase, taking the local market conditions and operation parameters into account.
The Proof of Concept for the process is now completed, demonstrating the effectiveness of the Vapolyser + Reformer core. All other ancillary components (gas cleaning, purification and separation, feedstock preprocessing, downstream hydrogen compression and dispensing) are well-known and proven off-the-shelf solutions that we integrate into built systems at engineering and construction phase.
The Proof of Concept has been tested and operated with synthetic Municipal Solid Waste, a mix of plastics, wood and other cellulose-based elements, and other biogenic matter in a metered proportion. We measured a performance equivalent to 110kg H₂ yield per ton of dry feedstock.
Ways2H provides end-to-end project support, starting from Project Assessment and Concept followed by Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and then Commissioning and post-delivery operation. We also strongly recommend maintenance and remote monitoring contracts, to ensure continued reliable operation.
Initial discussions, site selection, and logistics assessment.
Project and process assessment, go/no-go decisions.
Detailed engineering, procurement and construction. Commissioning and delivery follow.
The RefHynery is designed for a 30 years+ life with proper maintenance, and operation conditions. Ways2H partners with reputable EPC firms and favors local manufacturing and assembly, supervised jointly by Ways2H and local teams.
For additional information, project inquiries or technical details:
Jean‑Louis Kindler, CEO
📞 +1 (562) 414-4151