Service 02
Biohydrogen production
The hardest part of hydrogen logistics is the logistics. So we skipped them.
240 kg/day99.6 % less grid power than electrolysisAbove 99.97 % purityGreen by EU standards
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Certified biomethanol arrives at our Kløfta facility by ordinary truck.
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Steam reforming in the M18 unit at 83 % efficiency — 240 kg of biohydrogen a day.
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Filling and delivery — saving 14 261 kg of CO₂e per container.
Transporting hydrogen is one of the industry's best-known headaches: costly, complex, and often the slowest link in the chain. Our answer is simple: produce it where you use it. At Kløfta, we produce our hydrogen on-site — and the same concept can be deployed wherever hydrogen is needed.
The engine is the reformer.
It converts certified biomethanol into renewable hydrogen through steam reforming, right where we need it. At Kløfta, the facility has an annual capacity of 85,000 kg of hydrogen. The circular concept — capturing the hydrogen-rich off-gas after flushing, recovering its energy through catalytic oxidation, and feeding the heat back into the process — was key to securing support from Enova for developing the facility.Why biomethanol?
Because simple is what scales. Biomethanol is a liquid: it stores in standard tanks without compression or boil-off, and it arrives by ordinary truck on infrastructure that already exists. Producing hydrogen from it requires a reformer unit rather than a full electrolysis plant, which lowers the investment threshold drastically. Electrolysis will matter in the future energy mix — we simply did not want to wait for it. To be operational in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost, you choose the boring liquid.What the biohydrogen does all day.
Most of it goes straight into our own warm flushing and first fills. Producing it on-site means no hydrogen transport or compression for delivery. And after the hydrogen has done its job flushing out the nitrogen, we don't vent it — we recover its energy as heat and send it straight back into the process. The result is 5–12 tonnes of CO₂e avoided per container, depending on size. Our setup is one of a kind in Europe: a dedicated Warm Flushing facility where the flushing process itself is circular and emission-free. And purity is not taken on trust: every completed flush is verified by inline gas analysis on-site, down to ppm level.Nothing leaves unaccounted for.
Residual flush gas — the off-gas — is combusted flamelessly in our catalytic unit, the CTC, producing exactly two things: water and heat. This step also avoids any discharge of hydrogen — eliminating the climate impact of hydrogen release. The heat keeps the workshop above 25 °C through the winter. The end of one cycle quietly finances the start of the next. Read more about how we produce hydrogen on the spot.Available today, not someday.
If your project needs a reliable hydrogen supply — for MEGC preparation, for testing, or as a delivered product — send us an enquiry. We respond with volumes, timeline and pricing, normally within one working day.Get in touch
Other services: Warm flushing & first fill · Gas analysis