Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha announced that it would introduce a hydrogen generator into Thailand to produce hydrogen from biogases in collaboration with Toyota Motor and Toyota Tsusho. The company will be in charge of designing and manufacturing the generator. After delivering the generator in November this year, they will start operation within this year.

In April this year Toyota Motor announced to collaborate with Charoen Pokphand the major conglomerate of Thailand for the activities related to decarbonization, in which they agreed to produce hydrogen utilizing biogases from animal manure and also introducing FC commercial vehicles for transportation. The introduction of hydrogen at this time will be part of such activities.

The hydrogen generator which Mitsubishi Kakoki will supply is an SMR-type equipment having a production capacity of 1Nm3/h. At the local side, they will produce hydrogen using methane refined from biogases derived from animal manure and waste food. Toyota Motor and Toyota Tsusho will deal with development of methods to compress, store and transport biogases and hydrogen as well as the system to utilize H2. They take in sight to use so-produced hydrogen for FC vehicles.

In Japan Mitsubishi Kakoki is actually operating hydrogen stations utilizing the hydrogen which is derived from the waste water (human sewage), and is also supplying the hydrogen generator for the same purpose.

According to the company, as the hydrogen to be used this time is derived from chicken manure, there may be some difference from the human sewage in the concentration rate of contained impurities.