Posted on 28 Jun 2023
Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha have partnered to produce hydrogen from biogas in Thailand, Kallanish reports.
The hydrogen production equipment, manufactured by the engineering firm Mitsubishi Kakoki, will produce hydrogen from biogas obtained from local chicken manure and food waste. It will be installed in the Southeast Asian country in November this year, Toyota says in a statement.
The carmaker and its trading arm Toyota Tsusho will develop a system to compress, store, and transport biogas and hydrogen. While more details, including costs, are yet to be revealed, a Forbes report suggests the facility would have a production capacity of 1,000 litres of hydrogen per hour. It will be set up in Toyota’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Thailand’s Samut Prakan province, the report added.
“The three companies will continue to utilise Japan’s hydrogen-related technologies to promote clean energy tailored to each country and region,” the Japanese automotive giant says. They will also work with different stakeholders to achieve a “carbon-neutral society,” the company adds.
Toyota’s biogas-to-hydrogen production facility is part of its partnership with the Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group). First announced in December 2022, the partnership will have the companies use hydrogen, derived from manure in CP’s farms, to fuel the Bangkok-based company’s delivery trucks.
Early this year, the two companies signed an MOU with Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT) to achieve carbon neutrality in Thailand. Under the agreement, the three firms will collaborate on sectors of energy, data and mobility. As part of the energy solution, the companies will focus on developing renewable energy from the country’s abundant natural resources, Toyota said in an April 2023 statement.
Source:Kallanish
