Billions of tons buried or burned
Every year, waste is landfilled or incinerated at planetary scale.
Waste → Hydrogen → Value
Your trashis your moststrategic asset
Every day the world throws away the raw material for its clean energy future.
- kg H₂/ton
- 110kg H₂/ton
- t/day
- 30t/day
- yr life
- 30+yr life
01Where it matters most
Perfect for placesthat need it the most.
Small, local systems built where the waste is — each one serving its own community, instead of one distant plant serving everyone.
Illustrative — decentralized deployment model
Distributed, not centralized
One system per community.
Each node is a local loop: waste in, energy and value out, in the same place.
Some places face the worst combination, and have no viable solution to this problem.
- High fuel costs
- Limited landfill space
- Imported energy
- Growing and unmanageable waste streams
Island community · imported fuel storageEvery litre of fuel in those tanks arrived by sea
The RefHynery flips that equation
- Import energy
- Produce energy
- Export waste
- Create value
- Landfill
- Infrastructure
Who knew the solution for energy independence was in your own trash can?
02The global problem
The world is drowningunder trash — and starvingfor clean energy
Mixed · Messy · VariableStructured · Clean · Local
River town · active landfillWaste isn'tsomewhere else.
It sits across the water from where people live, on land that could be doing something else, moved by trucks that burn fuel to take it further away. The stream, the road and the grid are all already there.
That proximity is usually treated as a liability. It is the reason the economics work.
An additional cause of global warming
Decomposition and combustion return carbon to the atmosphere.
Trash shipped thousands of miles
Communities export the problem instead of resolving it locally.
Recycling is far from perfect
Mixed and contaminated streams fall outside recycling economics.
No access to basic hauling
Many populations have no waste infrastructure at all.
Unmanaged waste pollutes and kills
It damages humans, fauna and flora across entire ecosystems.
Mixed plastics · biogenic matterThis is the
raw material.
Biogenic material and plastics — roughly 80% of daily trash
This isn't awaste problem.It's a systemsdesign failure.
In parallel, clean hydrogen remains scarce and expensive.
03Why legacy systems fail
Isn't thisjust gasification?
It is the first question every engineer asks. The answer is in what conventional gasification does the moment waste stops being a laboratory specification and starts being waste.
System statusDegraded
Faults logged05 / 05
InspectingGas cleanup
Tolerated feedstockNarrow
Conventional train
Mixed.Messy. Variable.
Exactly how trash actually exists.
The RefHynery was designed for real-world waste.
RefHynery · Conceptual visualization04Infrastructure
Infrastructurethat belongsto a place.
01 — Sited where the waste already is
A RefHynery is built at community scale, next to the streams it processes — not at the end of a thousand-mile haul.
Conceptual visualization — not a photograph of an existing facility
05The technology
Meetthe RefHynery
Decentralized waste-to-value infrastructure.
A new class of thermochemical processing, converting organic feedstock — biogenic material and plastics, 80% of our daily trash — into hydrogen and sustainable carbon-based commodities. A distributed solution for communities of all sizes, effectively reusing 90% of its feedstock into marketable, useful products.
Process schematic01 / 06
FEEDFeedstock
Ways2H's patented RefHynery boasts the most efficient conversion of mixed organic waste and plastics into clean hydrogen.
Permanently sequestering CO₂ as additional commodities.
Enabling distributed local waste management solutions and decarbonized energy.
NOT RECYCLING
Conventional — Mechanical reprocessing of sorted material
06Feedstock
Built forreal‑world feedstock.
The RefHynery's process was specifically designed to address conventional gasifiers' primary challenge: poor tolerance for feedstock quality variations. It is inherently stable in its operating parameters, working virtually regardless of the feedstock's heating value — as long as it is chemically organic.
Tap a streamSelect a stream · all enter one process
01 / 08
Municipal solid waste
Mixed household and commercial streams, as collected.
Mixed. Messy. Variable.
07Core system
The Vapolyser+ Reformer core.
An innovative architecture assembled from industrial technology bricks that are already well known and proven.
Process reactorThe process has been designed to optimize the performance of existing, well-known industrial technology bricks, arranged in an innovative, breakthrough architecture.
The effectiveness of the Vapolyser + Reformer core has been demonstrated, yielding a record 110 kg of hydrogen per dry ton of feedstock.
System architecture
Proprietary core
- VapolyserThermochemical conversion of organic feedstock.
- ReformerConversion of the resulting stream toward hydrogen.
Proven off-the-shelf
- Gas cleaning
- Purification and separation
- Feedstock preprocessing
- Downstream H₂ compression
- Dispensing
Integrated into built systems at engineering and construction phase.
The process has been tested and operated with synthetic municipal solid waste — a mix of plastics, wood and other cellulose-based elements, and other biogenic matter in a metered proportion.
08Performance
Engineeredto perform.
Published figures for a standard RefHynery. Measured proof-of-concept performance, consistent with the initial calculations from engineering.
H₂ Yield
110KG H₂ / TON
Measured PoC performance, consistent with initial calculations from engineering.
Process instrumentation- CO₂ Ratio
- 1.7T CO₂ / TONCO₂ produced and sequestered per ton of feedstock.
- Standard plant
- 30T / DAYStandard RefHynery feedstock throughput.
- Hydrogen output
- 2.5–3.5T H₂ / DAYHydrogen produced by a standard 30 t/day plant.
- Sequestered + avoided
- ~60T / DAY CO₂Sequestered and avoided CO₂ for a standard plant.
- RefHynery
- 30+YEARS DESIGN LIFEDesigned for a 30 year+ life with proper maintenance and operating conditions.
Figures are reproduced as published by Ways2H. Suitable carbon products, exact output mix and plant configuration are determined at Project Assessment phase.
09Material outputs
Carbon becomesa commodity.
In addition to hydrogen — the RefHynery's direct output — the carbon and oxygen contained in the feedstock is refined throughout the process and converted into valuable commodities.
Carbon materialCarbon leaves the process as a handled solid, not as an emission. Which commodity a plant produces is set at Project Assessment against the local market — the list below is the published range, not a fixed output.
- 01C₂H₄
Ethylene
- 02C
Graphene / Graphite
- 03CO₃²⁻
Carbonates
- 04—
Concrete additives
- 05NaHCO₃
Baking soda
- 06CH₂O₂
Formic acid
- 07HCO₃⁻
Bicarbonate
- +
And more
Selection of the suitable carbon product is done at Project Assessment phase, taking local market conditions and operating parameters into account. Not every plant produces every product.
10Applications
Hydrogen, deliveredwhere it is used.
RefHyneries produce commodities that address various markets — clean mobility, ammonia production, industrial hydrogen, on-site power for buildings, and battery charging.
Hydrogen refuellingProduced where it is consumed.
RefHynery output
11Circular economy
We enable truecircular economy.
Most circular economy concepts still depend on at least partially global supply chains. The RefHynery localizes that loop — communities stop destroying or exporting a resource and start using it.
Value returns to the place the waste came from
Communities can transform07 outcomes
- 01Trashhydrogen fuel
- 02Trashclean power
- 03Trashenergy security and resilience
- 04Trashgreen commodities
- 05Trasha tool for fighting global warming
- 06Trashreal GDP value
- 07Trashjobs for the skilled and the non-skilled
Waste becomesinfrastructure.
12About
An engineeringcompany,globally distributed.
Ways2H is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clean Energy Enterprises. We engineer, build and sell systems that process waste into hydrogen and carbon products — supporting circular economy outcomes, climate remediation and local energy independence.
- United States
- California
- European Union
- France
- India
- —
Team and experience
A Clean Energy
Enterprises company
60+years
Cumulative experience across gasification, hydrogen and chemical processing.
- Gasification
- Hydrogen
- Chemical processing
Delivered across
USA · Japan · Europe · China · India · and more
A Clean EnergyEnterprises company
13Project delivery
End-to-endproject support.
From Project Assessment and Concept through Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and then Commissioning and post-delivery operation.
Process plant · commissioning scaleFrom concept to built system.
- Delivery model
- EPC partners
- Manufacturing
- Local, supervised
- Design life
- 30+ years
Project delivery systemPHASE I
Project review
- PHASE I
Project review
- Initial discussions
- Site selection
- Logistics assessment
- PHASE II
Assessment
- Project assessment
- Process assessment
- Go / No-Go decision
- PHASE III
Engineering
- Detailed engineering
- Procurement
- PHASE IV
Construction & commissioning
- Construction
- Commissioning
- Delivery
- Operations support
The RefHynery is designed for a 30 year+ life with proper maintenance and operating conditions. Ways2H strongly recommends maintenance and remote monitoring contracts to ensure continued reliable operation.
Ways2H partners with reputable EPC firms and favors local manufacturing and assembly, supervised jointly by Ways2H and local teams.
14Current momentum
Phase 1 · Active
Forestry residuals · Western WashingtonProject assessmentPhase 1 scope
Lewis County,Washington
Forestry residuals into fuel-grade hydrogen, carbon products and dispatchable clean power.
The Lewis County Hydrogen Alliance has begun Phase 1 work in the Western Washington Bioeconomy Development Opportunity Zone. Ways2H is providing thermochemical conversion technology and engineering support. An initial $400,000 Phase 1 award supports a project assessment package intended to establish parameters for advancing into detailed engineering, pilot development and private-capital deployment.
Forestry residualsLocally available biomass
Thermochemical conversionWays2H technology and engineering
Fuel-grade hydrogen
Carbon products
Dispatchable clean power
Forestry residualsLocally available biomass
Thermochemical conversionWays2H technology and engineering
Fuel-grade hydrogen
Carbon products
Dispatchable clean power
- Site diligence
- Concept engineering
- Permitting roadmap
- Commercialization planning
- Capital-readiness analysis
Development-stage initiative. Announced 28 July 2026 from Chehalis, Washington. This is an active assessment — not a constructed or operating facility.
Participants
- 01
Lewis County Hydrogen Alliance
Alliance lead
- 02
Ways2H
Thermochemical conversion technology and engineering support
- 03
HydrogenXT
Project development, commercialization and offtake strategy
- 04
The Devonshire Group
Delivery management, biomass supply-chain assessment, stakeholder coordination
15Contact
Turn local wasteinto local energy.
For additional information, project inquiries or technical details.