H2Boost interactive session: Accelerating the UK's biohydrogen and carbon capture technologies through waste innovation
Join us for an interactive workshop where you can help shape cutting-edge technology that's vital for achieving the UK's net zero ambitions.
In the push to decarbonise UK industry, biomass and bioenergy play essential roles. However, our island nation faces a unique challenge: limited domestic biomass resources. This means we must be incredibly smart about how we use our available feedstocks, developing sustainable processes that maximise efficiency while minimising waste and carbon emissions.
Enter H2Boost - an innovative collaboration that brings together experts across biological, process, and engineering sciences. We're pioneering something extraordinary: the first large-scale demonstration of biohydrogen production that combines dark fermentation with anaerobic digestion and biogenic carbon capture.
What makes our approach special? H2Boost technologies transform low-value waste streams and industrial byproducts - materials that would otherwise go unused - into clean hydrogen and methane. But we don't stop there. Our process uses cyanobacteria and microalgae to capture carbon dioxide, creating an integrated system that unlocks both bioenergy production and valuable chemical precursors from challenging feedstocks.
H2Boost is part of the Hydrogen BECCS Innovation Programme funded through the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP). This aims to address the urgent need for distributed clean hydrogen production and H2Boost has achieved remarkable progress. In just 16 months, Phase 2 of our project reached a significant milestone: successfully designing, building, and operating an integrated plant that combines biogas production with biogenic carbon capture, including the UK's first demonstration of large-scale dark fermentation for biohydrogen production.
Now, we invite you to engage with this technology and help shape its future. What aspects interest you most? How do you envision this technology transforming your industry and what are the opportunities for further innovation in this space?
Why Attend?
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to:
Gain firsthand insights into H2Boost’s breakthrough achievements
Shape the future applications of this technology
Explore partnership opportunities in the growing bioeconomy
Influence how this platform can serve your industry's needs
Help to overcome barriers to market adoption
Your expertise matters. In this collaborative session, your insights will help guide how this technology can be optimised for real-world deployment. Whether your interest lies in distributed bioenergy production, sustainable chemicals, or novel materials, your perspective will be invaluable in identifying the most impactful applications of H2Boost technologies.
You can find out more about the H2Boost project by visiting www.biorenewables.org/h2boost
Workshop Highlights / Agenda / Structure
Showcase of H2Boost’s technical achievements
Rapid scale-up: What it takes to get from the bench to production at scale in 16 months!
Key insights and outcomes from the demonstration project
Interactive audience discussion
Innovation opportunities for the technology
Implementation strategies and challenges
Sector-specific applications and opportunities
