Levidian has launched its LOOP technology, producing hydrogen and graphene
British climate technology firm Levidian has launched its second-generation LOOP technology, which will unlock industrial levels of production of high-quality graphene for the first time.
Levidian’s market-leading LOOP system provides heavy emitters and hard-to-abate industries such as landfill and aluminium producers with a route to both decarbonise their processes and
open up new revenue streams from the graphene and hydrogen that is produced.
At the heart of LOOP is a patented ‘nozzle’ where microwave energy is applied to crack methane into its component parts, creating clean hydrogen and capturing carbon in the form of high purity graphene. A single nozzle will be capable of producing around 15 tonnes of graphene a year – enough, for example, to transform the performance of thousands of electric vehicles with
graphene-enhanced batteries and tyres so that cars can go further for longer with less impact on the environment.
Levidian already has 10 LOOPs deployed or under construction globally including a pioneering biogas to hydrogen pilot at United Utilities’ Manchester Bioresources Centre, which is supported
by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s Hydrogen BECCS Innovation Programme.