H2SITE history
H2SITE was created in 2020 in Bilbao,Spain and has an exclusive technology of reactors and separators for the conversion of different feedstocks into hydrogen, among which are ammonia, methanol or synthetic gas, in addition to production facilities, such as the separation of hydrogen from gaseous mixtures in low concentration for applications in salt caverns or geologic hydrogen.
Both centers had collaborated for over a decade for large-scale stationary decarbonization, securing more than 70 million euros through various EU funding schemes, to develop the integrated membrane reactor concept. By combining highly H2-selective membranes and a specific reactor design, they increased the efficiency of specific reactions by shifting the thermodynamic equilibrium. Following the successful construction of the first prototypes, the technology was poised to enter a new stage towards industrialization and the decarbonization.
Incorporated in 2019, H2SITE raised its Series Seed with ENGIE New Ventures in 2020 to establish production facilities and commercialization of integrated membrane reactors and separators.
In 2022, the company received additional support from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ENGIE New Ventures and Equinor ventures to further scale the technology and demonstrate its efficiency in the most suitable market segments.
Since then, H2SITE has produced thousands of membranes at its production facility based in Bilbao. These membranes are utilized in integrated membrane reactors and separators, high-pressure separators and low-pressure separators, serving as steppingstones for the company to address strategic market opportunities such as onboard ammonia crackers for maritime decarbonization, large-scale stationary ammonia crackers, integrated water gas shift reactors, high-pressure separators (80 bar), low-pressure separators (12 bar), covering applications ranging from tens of kilograms per day to tons per day.