Announcement • Jul 07
NewHydrogen Announces Plans To Automate ThermoLoop Engineering Test Unit NewHydrogen, Inc. announced plans to automate its ThermoLoop engineering test unit (ETU), a move designed to accelerate the Company’s path toward its first commercial pilot plant. Introducing automated controls will shift focus from managing the test setup to analyzing the data and expediting time to market for the Company’s first commercial pilot plant. Using results from an ETU is the standard, industry-accepted pathway for designing a commercial pilot plant. The Company’s ETU will serve as the bridge between its bench-scale laboratory experiments and the pilot plant, specifically built to prove the fundamental physics, chemistry, and kinetics of ThermoLoop. The plan builds on the Company’s recent announcement that it successfully passed Stage Gate One and transitioned from the research phase into the engineering phase of its development program, as well as its strategic collaboration with NuCube Energy to explore nuclear-powered hydrogen production. NewHydrogen is now focused on building a dedicated ThermoLoop ETU, and automating its controls is intended to give the Company’s engineering team continuous, around-the-clock testing capability with greater precision and repeatability from run to run. By reducing the time engineers spend manually managing the test setup, automation is expected to let the team focus more on analyzing results, shortening the time required to generate the data needed to determine commercial pilot plant specifications. ThermoLoop is a breakthrough technology that uses water and heat instead of electricity to produce the world’s cheapest clean hydrogen. Hydrogen is the key ingredient in making fertilizers needed to grow food for the world. It is also used for transportation, refining oil and making steel, glass, pharmaceuticals and more. Nearly all the hydrogen is made from hydrocarbons like coal, oil, and natural gas, which are dirty and limited resources. Water, on the other hand, is an infinite and renewable worldwide resource. Currently, the most common method of making clean hydrogen is to split water into oxygen and hydrogen with an electrolyzer using green electricity produced from solar or wind. Green electricity currently accounts for 73% of the cost of clean hydrogen. By using heat directly, the expensive process of making electricity can be skipped, fundamentally lowering the cost of clean hydrogen. Inexpensive heat can be obtained from concentrated solar, geothermal, nuclear reactors and industrial waste heat for use in the novel low-cost thermochemical water splitting process. The goal is to help usher in the clean hydrogen economy that Goldman Sachs estimated to have a future market value of $12 trillion. Announcement • Apr 24
Newhydrogen Inc Completes Pre-Pilot Plant Technical Validation for ThermoLoop Technology NewHydrogen, Inc. announced that ThermoLoop has successfully completed a critical pre-pilot plant technical validation milestone. The Company will now proceed with construction of a dedicated ThermoLoop engineering test unit to determine commercial pilot plant specifications. Stage Gate One required ThermoLoop to meet the following engineering and performance criteria: Maximum operating temperature below 1,000°C; Demonstrated operation over more than 10 cycles; Hydrogen production efficiency exceeding 75% of theoretical yield; Defined industrial heat-integration strategy; Formal process control and management-of-change framework in place; All non-core balance-of-plant equipment utilizes commercially proven technologies; Manageable separations; Acceptable safety and toxicity profile; No identified economic barriers to pilot-scale development. The ThermoLoop engineering test unit will be constructed by a University of California, Santa Barbara team led by Ryan Patrick, NewHydrogen Senior Chemical Engineer. The UCSB program is directed by Dr. Eric McFarland, NewHydrogen’s Chief Technology Officer, in collaboration with UCSB lead investigator Dr. Phil Christopher. The objective of the engineering test unit is to validate around-the-clock performance and generate the data necessary to design the first commercial pilot plant. The next phase will generate the engineering data necessary to support pilot plant design but may also lead to the sale or license of the technology. Announcement • Mar 12
NewHydrogen, Inc. Files International Patent Application for Thermoloop Technology NewHydrogen, Inc. had jointly filed an international patent application with the University of California, Santa Barbara for its innovative clean hydrogen production process and associated technology titled “Coupled Multi-phase Oxidation-Reducing For Production of Chemicals.” NewHydrogen filed an international patent application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) that further expands the basis for the Company’s ThermoLoop thermochemical water splitting process together with new material compositions discovered by the UCSB technology team and the new isothermal hydrogen process. A key innovation in the filing is the use of artificial intelligence and Large Language Models (LLM) to discover and design optimal materials for these reaction networks. This allows the team to identify and optimize complex mixed-metal oxides and other regenerable materials that can operate efficiently within specific temperature ranges. The technology enables hydrogen production at temperatures below 1000°C, which avoids the energy-inefficient large temperature swings required by previous methods. The PCT application establishes a filing date in all 158 contracting countries, providing the Company with a robust foundation to protect its intellectual property as it moves toward commercialization. 
