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. Announcement • Nov 04
NewHydrogen, Inc. Jointly Files Second Patent Application with University of California, Santa Barbara for its Innovative Clean Hydrogen Production Process NewHydrogen, Inc. announced that it has jointly filed a second provisional patent application with the University of California, Santa Barbara for its innovative clean hydrogen production process. The patent, titled " Improved Materials and Methods For Production of Chemicals By Thermochemical Looping," is a comprehensive provisional patent application that describes the most recent improvements to the Company's ThermoLoop thermochemical water splitting process together with new material compositions discovered by the UCSB technology team and the first disclosure of the new isothermal hydrogen process. The Company's proprietary process utilizes advanced solid-state materials and machine learning-driven material discovery to optimize efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Recently, the NewHydrogen technical team completed preliminary design and economic studies on integrating ThermoLoop with current and future power plants. The team also concluded that Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are the perfect pairing for the Company's technology, and are ideal sources of constant and reliable baseload heat for powering the ThermoLoop process. The patent filing marks a significant milestone in NewHydrogen's collaboration with leading researchers at UC Santa Barbara, who are at the forefront of advancing materials science for hydrogen production. Announcement • Jul 15
NewHydrogen, Inc. Announces Its First Production of Clean Hydrogen NewHydrogen, Inc. announced its first production of clean hydrogen. The Company also released an online Special Report featuring the first public demonstration of its functioning ThermoLoop lab benchtop unit producing hydrogen in real-time. The Special Report highlights a significant milestone and advancement from previous iterations of ThermoLoop technology. The Special Report provides an unprecedented look inside the laboratory, featuring detailed explanations from the company's scientific team. The video demonstrates ThermoLoop's unique approach to thermochemical water-splitting, which the company believes could eventually make traditional electrolyzers obsolete. The Special Report features insights from Dr. Eric McFarland, NewHydrogen's Chief Technology Officer and co-inventor of ThermoLoop. Other team members are also featured, including Dr. Phil Christopher, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, a co-inventor and Principal Investigator on the ThermoLoop project, as well as Sundar Narayanan, NewHydrogen's Director of Process Engineering, who brings 35 years of industrial and chemical process engineering experience, including more than 20 years with ExxonMobil. This lab demonstration represents the first step in scaling the Company's breakthrough technology from laboratory to commercial applications, similar to how steam reforming of natural gas evolved from lab units to massive commercial plants that now produce over 60 million tons of hydrogen per year in the current $170 billion fossil-fuel-based hydrogen market. ThermoLoop's heat-based approach addresses the fundamental cost challenge in clean hydrogen production, where electricity currently accounts for up to 73% of production costs. By using heat directly from sources such as concentrated solar, geothermal, nuclear reactors, and industrial waste heat, ThermoLoop bypasses the expensive process of electricity generation. Announcement • Apr 30
NewHydrogen, Inc. Appoints Dr. Eric McFarland as Chief Technology Officer NewHydrogen, Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Eric McFarland as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Dr. McFarland will evolve the company’s technology strategy and help accelerate ThermoLoop’s advancement from the laboratory and pilot scale to the commercial marketplace. McFarland will also continue to work with the scientific team at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), led by Dr. Phil Christopher. Eric McFarland studied Nuclear Engineering and received B.S. and M.S. degrees from U.C. Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the Nuclear Engineering faculty at MIT where his research moved from nuclear reaction fundamentals to use of nuclear phenomena for non-destructive materials and chemical analysis. In 1991 McFarland moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is a Professor of Chemical Engineering. McFarland’s academic research in energy conversion technology and reaction engineering has been both fundamental and applied. He has published over 200 scientific papers and is the inventor on over 30 patents. McFarland has always worked closely with industry and has been a founder or co-founder of a number of chemical technology companies and has served in several executive and Board positions. Together with other University faculty, he was one of the founding directors of Symyx Technologies a chemical technology start-up that went on to have a successful public offering. McFarland served as CEO and President of Gas Reaction Technologies Inc. (GRT) that had major R&D programs with several global oil and gas companies. McFarland was awarded the Dow Chemical Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland, Australia and spent two-years as the founding Director of the Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation. He was a founder and served as Chief Technology Officer of CZero a company developing technology to use fossil resources for hydrogen production without carbon dioxide emissions. McFarland also studied medicine and earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and did post-graduate training in general surgery. He practiced part-time in Emergency Medicine and worked as a volunteer physician for several relief agencies. 
