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Hydrogenus Energy Enables The Practical Use Of Hydrogen

Hydrogenus Energy has developed technology to enable low cost, at scale, replacement of fossil fuels in hard to abate areas of diesel use.
Our technology provides multiple positive applications for health, cost and fuel security, enabling a positive sustainable and secure future.

  • Secure - a reliable alternative for diesel, we improve local fuel security and provide safe long term energy storage
  • Sustainable - we create a pathway to carbon net zero, improve health and enable more secure electricity infrastructure for growing communities which can be serviced by local technicians
  • Affordable - with renewable energy producing fuels and enabling safe energy storage, this creates a low cost and scalable solution
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Hydrogen Solutions

Hydrogen is a clean fuel and when burnt to produce electricity, the only emission is water.

In other words, water is split into hydrogen and oxygen and burning hydrogen, via the Hydrogenus System, re-combines it with oxygen to produce water.

New electrolysis technology is more efficient than the original technologies, and new combustion technologies, if combined with a heat recovery process, can deliver up to 90% energy efficiency.

Hydrogenus Technology

Hydrogenus Energy was created in 2019 to develop an internal combustion engine which can run on hydrogen. This has been completed and in 2024 we have our technology protected with patents and the encrypted controls of our ECU.

The Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine has the following improvements on a traditional diesel generator:
- Improved block load performance (increasing and decreasing load)
- no NOx, no SOx, no PM produced
- Use of Hydrogen for fuel intake, which is flexible in the purity required (significant lower purity then fuel cells require)
- 100kW finalised and available for order (other sizes available for delivery 2026)
- We are now finalising the onsite energy storage conversion system for ammonia fuels to Hydrogen for engine use. This will enable an alternative for energy storage and transportation which will be more practical for some use cases.

Producing Hydrogen

After electrolytic processes take place in the electrolyser, hydrogen is created from the water molecules. The Hydrogenus Energy System then uses this hydrogen as the fuel to produce electricity.

The Hydrogenus Team

Our board of directors have worked collectively for many years in the Geoscience, Energy Research and Program Development spaces.

Hydrogenus has created technologies that deliver power using hydrogen as a fuel. This provides better economic, environmental and social outcomes in the energy sector with a focus on the practical application of technology to the de-carbonisation challenge.

Mark Smith
Non-Executive Chairperson

Mark has over 40 years’ experience in management and geoscience in petroleum exploration with BHP and with the successful ASX listed company Karoon Energy.

Mark has had a long-standing interest and involvement in renewable technology development through the precursor company to Hydrogenus Energy, Bennett Clayton.

From 2004 to mid-2021, Mark was a co-founder, Executive Director and Exploration Manager with Karoon growing it in value from $5mill to $1,500mill with gas and oil discoveries in Australia and Brazil.

Marcus Clayton
Chief Technology Officer & Executive Director

Marcus formally trained and served in the RAAF, where he was charged with looking after “everything that did not fly”, which included air traffic control towers, radio, radar and computer networks.

He joined John Bennett to form Bennett Clayton in 1990, building on John’s expertise in engine development, including alcohol fuels, and extending this to LPG for diesel buses and natural gas for back-up generators.  Marcus founded Bennett Clayton Hydrogen Engine Systems (since renamed Hydrogenus Energy) to extend Bennett Clayton’s Intellectual Property to operate engines using hydrogen as their fuel, and then to commercialise this technology.

Pieter Bruinstroop
Company Secretary & Executive Director

Pieter has a degree in economics, an honors degree in commerce and has been a CPA and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.
In the mid-1980s, Pieter worked in the Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program of the Commonwealth Government as an economic analyst, publishing reviews on photovoltaics and wind energy.

Pieter has been a fund manager for three companies over 11 years and a research analyst in three broking firms.  He co-founded Beer & Co, a boutique Corporate Advisory firm, in 2013.

Roger Walker
Chief Strategy Officer

Roger has a degree in Business, initially practiced as a Real Estate Valuer and has worked for 25 years in the Commercial Property and Energy Infrastructure sectors. He has delivered significant award-winning projects and has worked on and advised government panels at State and Federal level in sustainability in the built environment.

Frank Musco
Engineer

Frank is a very experienced and passionate engineering professional with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (with Honours) and a certificate in Automotive Mechanical Technologies.  With over 20 years’ experience in the engine & automotive industries including the design, development, manufacture, testing and diagnosis of prototype components, Frank runs an engineering business specialising in the preparation of racing cars and their engines. He also has a long-term interest in the use of alternative fuels, including hydrogen.

Shay O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer

Shay is an experienced executive with a background in accounting, HR, and senior management in small and medium enterprises over many years and across multiple industry sectors.

Recently General Manager of a group of businesses in the scientific instrumentation and supplies industries.

"At Hydrogenus we understand that low cost practical solutions are required for accelerated change and you must work as a community to meet the challenges we face. We see our technology as an enabler for improvements in existing supply chains and so scaling can be undertaken at a global level."

Marcus Clayton
Hydrogenus Energy Chief Technology Officer

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