Hydrogen will be a core part of the energy stack, especially in India. Hydrogen is an energy vector, that can be used to more efficiently store and transport India's large amount of solar and wind capacity. Hydrogen will only become mainstream if it becomes cheaper to produce and use.
While green hydrogen is important, we need to start by simply using more hydrogen and developing the infrastructure around it. Hydrogen Mem-Tech has built one of the world's leading membrane technologies to separate and purify hydrogen more efficiently, to deliver high-purity hydrogen, at an ultra-low cost.
Hydrogen Mem-Tech is a Trondheim-based hydrogen separation company founded in 2017 from SINTEF, one of Europe's leading applied technology and research institutions. HMT designs and manufactures proprietary palladium-based membrane plates, membrane stacks and complete hydrogen separators that extract and purify hydrogen from gas streams such as reformed biogas, methanol, natural gas syngas and cracked ammonia.
The palladium membrane is 100% selective to hydrogen — allowing H₂ atoms to pass through while CO₂, CO, water and other impurities remain in the retentate stream. This enables high-purity hydrogen output, a separable CO₂-rich stream, and a compact alternative to incumbent purification systems such as PSA.
HMT's near-term India opportunity is not replacing green hydrogen, but enabling pragmatic low-carbon hydrogen use cases across existing industrial processes, gas streams and partner-led deployments.
- Enables high-purity applications (fuel cells, semiconductors)
- High recovery factor & yield, improving economics
- Lower CAPEX and ~50% smaller than PSA
- No moving parts — high reliability, low noise
- Modular & scalable to new applications
- Multi-feedstock input across gas streams
- Sector
- Hydrogen
- Headquarters
- Trondheim, Norway
- Year invested
- 2024
- Stage
- Series A
- Geographies
- Europe · Asia · Middle East · India
