RIFT writes history by sustainably heating 500 households with iron fuel technology

RIFT has successfully heated 500 households in Helmond (The Netherlands) without any carbon dioxide emissions, demonstrating their Iron Fuel Technology™ in a realistic and industrial context. A global first for the technology that, by burning iron powder, enables decarbonization for energy-intensive industries, which are not able to with current alternatives.

The Iron Fuel Technology™ enables energy-intensive industries, like district heating, industrial and electricity plants, to decarbonize their heat reliant processes. As of now, they create this heat by burning fossil fuels, resulting in 40-52% of all global carbon dioxide emissions. The two alternatives that these industries currently have, electrification and hydrogen, depend on a grid connection which in 80% of the cases does not nor will not exist.

With the Iron Fuel Technology™, RIFT eliminates this dependency, opening these industries up to becoming sustainable. Simply said, the technology works by rusting and unrusting iron in a controlled environment. In a boiler system, the iron fuel (iron powder) is combusted, releasing enormous amount of energy, carbon dioxide free and with the lowest nitrogen oxide emissions of all fuels. The rust, the only residual product of this process, is easily transported to an Iron Fuel Production system in which it is un-rusted using hydrogen. Making it a circular long duration energy carrier.

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