[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunseok Yoo] InscoBee announced on the 6th that the BioX consortium, which includes its affiliate InsGreen, has been selected in the evaluation for the 7 billion KRW ‘Development of Low-Carbon Eco-Friendly Process Technology for Biological Hydrogen Production’ support project, led by the Ministry of Environment and the Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute.
This project is led by BioX, which is developing the HAAMA technology for a high-purity green hydrogen energy generation system. InsGreen plans to operate pilot applications of the HAAMA system as well as secure demonstration facilities and equipment.
InsGreen participated as a member of the industry-academia-research consortium composed of BioX, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Korea Testing Laboratory, Kolon Global, Korea Entech, Pusan National University, and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) for this support project.
Currently, organic waste such as food waste causes environmental destruction and incurs annual treatment costs exceeding 1 trillion KRW. Recently, with the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic increasing time spent at home due to remote work, there is a growing need to develop green hydrogen production technology based on organic waste.
By participating in the consortium composed of industry, academia, and research institutes, InsGreen expects to contribute to the development of a carbon reduction-type green hydrogen production integrated process system.
Korea Institute of Energy Research and Pusan National University plan to operate bioelectrochemical reactors applicable on-site using electroactive microbial communities for carbon reduction-type hydrogen production core technology. Additionally, Korea Testing Laboratory and Korea Entech will develop high-purity hydrogen purification and recovery technology based on a VPSA-membrane hybrid system.
A company official explained, “Through participation in this support project, we expect to solve the food waste treatment problem and produce eco-friendly green hydrogen to expand market competitiveness. In particular, as the government has selected hydrogen economy as a key keyword and is actively establishing hydrogen energy infrastructure, InscoBee and InsGreen anticipate achieving visible results in the eco-friendly business sector.”
Meanwhile, BioX and InscoBee-InsGreen signed an MOU in February for research and commercialization in the green hydrogen field and have been conducting close cooperation. Synergistic effects are expected through this project.
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