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Supercritical officially opens new Global Tech Centre (GTC) in London, providing a dedicated hub for advanced testing, engineering and industrial collaboration as the global energy sector reaches a critical transition point.

Supercritical Solutions, today announces the successful completion of the ground-breaking WhiskHy project, a collaborative effort with Suntory Global Spirits and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)

Chemical Engineering’s Mary Page Bailey covers the Porous Flowthrough Electrode architecture, and how operating without a membrane lets the reactor run at pressure and intermediate temperature.

Supercritical Solutions and Valterra Platinum have launched a joint pre-feasibility study to assess the deployment of advanced on-site hydrogen production that will aim to tackle supply chain bottlenecks and improve cost efficiency.

Supercritical has signed a non-exclusive collaboration agreement with Shell Global Solutions International B.V, as it advances its technology from an advanced out-of-laboratory prototype towards a pilot demonstration in the field.

Leading low carbon liquid fuels (LCLF) company HAMR Energy and Supercritical Solutions (Supercritical) today announced the completion of the first phases of a feasibility study into next-generation, low-cost methanol production for shipping and aviation fuels.

Supercritical stands with industry leaders across shipping, renewables, and the e-fuels sectors in support of the Net Zero Framework. This is a once in a generation opportunity to bring shipping emissions down, in line with a 2050 target for Net Zero. The NZF is a key first step in increasing the use of e-fuels: building scale and supply chains now, so e-fuels can provide cheap and sustainable fuel well into the future.

Supercritical appoints seasoned energy (ex-BP) and deep-tech executive, Siobhan Clarke, as Chair and non-executive director as the company takes steps to commercial maturity following £14 million fundraise led by Shell Ventures and Toyota Ventures.

Supercritical has secured significant funds and grown its global strategic investor network to streamline its route to decarbonising the chemicals and fuels industries. With excitement around the technology building, Supercritical launches waiting list for its technology, advising that reservations for delivery are being booked for as early as 2027

● MoU builds on successful collaboration through WhiskHy project and commits partners to continue technical and commercial validation Supercritical’s technology across Suntory Global Spirits-owned distilleries in Scotland ● Milestone marked with casking of hydrogen direct-fired spirit distilled at the Yamazaki Distillery’s pilot distillery in Japan, casked in Japan and Scotland ● Celebrated with representatives from the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, this milestone marks major advancement in finding innovative solutions to decarbonise distilling

In July 2024, seven major hydrogen projects achieved Final Investment Decision (FID) status, reflecting the growing global confidence in hydrogen as a key player in the energy transition. These projects highlight the importance of focusing hydrogen efforts where they make the most impact—such as in chemicals, heavy industry, and transport. At Supercritical, we’re committed to driving innovation in these crucial sectors, ensuring hydrogen’s role in the future is both strategic and economically viable.

Innovate UK spotlights how government backing has accelerated Supercritical's growth — from a deep-tech spinout to a team of over 40 specialists developing world-leading electrolyser technology.

Consortium embarks on AUD 1.5million (GBP 800,000) project that will demonstrate that renewable methanol costs can be reduced by up to 20% with ultra-high efficiency, high pressure green hydrogen production. The partnership aims to commercialise the concept and drive commercial world scale systems to market by 2030, enabling a global methanol opportunity worth a potential AUD 370 billion.

In a groundbreaking collaboration with Beam Suntory, we've achieved a world-first in whisky production at the Yamazaki distillery in Japan, utilising 100% hydrogen in direct-fired distillation. This milestone in the 'WhiskHy' project, supported by the UK's Green Distilleries Competition, represents a significant step towards sustainable distilling, aligning with our vision for a net-zero future. Our proprietary electrolyser technology underscores this innovation, promising a greener, more resilient industry. Together with Beam Suntory's Proof Positive strategy, we're forging a legacy of sustainability in the spirits world.

A great idea isn’t enough to create a succcessful business, but it’s a great start! Mike Russ, CTO and co-founder of Supercritical, and George Tebbutt, Partner at HLK sat down to discuss the right combination of innovation, IP strategy and commercial acumen are essential to make an impact.

MEMUK News covers the IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year awards, where Supercritical’s Titi Oliyide was among those recognised.

Supercritical, a UK-based clean-tech startup, has achieved a significant milestone in the sustainable energy industry with the completion of its innovative green hydrogen demonstrator at their Teesside facility in North East England.

IEEE Spectrum interviews co-founder Luke Tan on the work with Beam Suntory towards hydrogen-powered whisky production.

The Supercritical Striders took on Ealing Half Marathon 2023! Our first outing as a running group, it was a great day being able to run our local borough.

Titi Oliyide CEng MIET, Supercritical's Senior Process Safety Engineer, has done it again! We’re very proud to announce that she is an IET Awards Achievement Medal finalist! Best of luck! A huge well done from all of us at Supercritical.

Explore Supercritical's Journey in Hydrogen Technology: From Humble Beginnings to Market-Leading Innovations, Sustainability, and Exciting Collaborations Ahead!

🌍🚀 Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day! 🎉 Today marks the 10th year of this incredible event, brought to you by the Women's Engineering Society (WES). This year's theme is #MakeSafetySeen, highlighting the remarkable contributions of women engineers worldwide who work tirelessly to support lives and livelihoods.

Green hydrogen and green ammonia will play a huge role in achieving net zero by 2050. Supercritical is pleased to share the findings of our feasibility study, GreeNH3, performed with partners ScottishPower and Proton Ventures that showed huge potential for Supercritical’s technology in this burgeoning market!

Today, over 94 million tonnes [1] of hydrogen are produced annually used in many industrial applications from refineries to producing ammonia needed for fertiliser. The effect; this 112.5 billion-dollar industry [2] is responsible for more than 900 million tonnes [1] of carbon dioxide emissions each year.

Green hydrogen has gained a lot of attention in the past few years as a zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels, necessary to achieve the 2050 targets. This is largely due to its high energy content and the carbon free products of combustion (water). The production of green hydrogen via electrolysis using renewable electricityis an increasingly popular way of smoothing out the variable outputs from renewable sources of energy such as solar and wind energy.

In support of Hydrogen Week UK, Supercritical has left the lab and entered the classroom to provide some insights into work in the hydrogen industry, the clean tech sector and a startup! In just two and a half years, Supercritical has grown from 4 founders to 15 full time employees. In that time, we’ve had hundreds applicants for various roles across the business!

S&P Global Market Intelligence reports on the pilot plant being built by ScottishPower, Proton Ventures and Supercritical.

World’s first high-efficiency, supercritical electrolyser to green ammonia production process to be developed in the UK. Supercritical, with partners ScottishPower and Proton Ventures, has secured around £146,000 funding from the Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for Phase 1 of their GreeNH3 project as part of the UK Government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 competition with up to £6 million available in Phase 2 subject to a competitive tender process.

Sifted maps Europe’s emerging hydrogen industry, and places Supercritical on it.

The planet is broken and we broke it. We need to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. Let's not pretend anymore, business as usual isn’t going to get us there nor is changing light bulbs or any amount of sorting your recycling. We need significant, direct action. I’m going to share a dirty secret with you…. The production of hydrogen today is made from fossil fuels and emits more CO2 into the atmosphere than the combined total emissions of Canada and Australia. That's the same as the global airline industry.

Renewables Now covers Supercritical’s $3.6 million seed round, led by Jericho Energy Ventures.

The Times reports on the four Scottish projects sharing £11 million from the government Green Distilleries Competition, WhiskHy among them.

WhiskHy, a consortium led by Supercritical in collaboration with partners Beam Suntory and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has been awarded £2.94 million as part of Phase 2 of the Green Distilleries Competition funded through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.

The WhiskHy project has secured government backing to advance hydrogen integration within Scotland's whisky production sector, enabling distilleries to produce and store hydrogen on-site.

For the first time ever, in addition to the winners, Supercritical were also selected by the jury and have been offered a collaboration with Shell.

Supercritical, as a Top 5 start up in Shell's New Energy Challenge, have been working hard over the last 3 weeks to better understand Shell and how Supercritical can create sustainable value for their business.On Friday 28th October, we'll be pitching live to a panel of senior Shell Executives for our chance to win €100,000 and a collaboration with the energy super major!

Supercritical, developer of the world’s first high pressure, ultra-efficient electrolyser, is named in CleantechGroup’s New 50 to Watch List, one of only 8 UK based companies selected for the prestigious list.

Supercritical and their high pressure, ultra-efficient electrolyser, has been selected as one of seven teams to take part in the OZ Minerals Think & Act Differently (TAD) accelerator program. The focus of the challenge was to identify experiments that can demonstrate the safe and effective use of hydrogen in a mining context, with the aim of providing OZ Minerals insight into how Hydrogen can be used to support zero or low carbon processes.

Supercritical shortlisted as top 10 of 180+ applicants in this year's New Energy Challenge (NEC) where the winner will receive €100,000 towards a proof of concept within the Shell GameChanger programme, giving them a quick and cost-effective way to test the technical and commercial viability of their solution with the energy super major.

Supercritical has been selected as a finalist in OZ Minerals’ Hydrogen Hypothesis Challenge. It is a clear demonstration that Supercritical’s technology is not limited by geographical restrictions, even at this early stage. Innovation and collaboration to deliver low cost decarbonising solutions knows no borders, and the team at Supercritical is using their many years of international experience to seek the opportunities that can make the biggest difference.

Supercritical has been awarded over £320,000 by InnovateUK, the UK’s innovation agency, as part of the Smart Grant competition (Smart). Project AHEAD (Affordable Hydrogen from Electrolysis Accelerating Decarbonisation) sees the project, valued at almost half a million pounds, co-funded to 70% by InnovateUK. Crucially, the funding will support Supercritical in the development and testing of a fully operational multi-cell module.

Not a week goes by without a news story being published about a record-breaking statistic or observable event occurring that is attributed to climate change. It's worrying and, at times, it seems dire! However, like all problems, we need to understand the scale of the challenge in order to tackle it. We have no other choice.

Supercritical Solutions Ltd (Supercritical) has successfully completed a three-month feasibility study for their green hydrogen-based decarbonisation technology at Beam Suntory’s Ardmore distillery. Supercritical’s ‘Project WhiskHy’ was one of just 17 green innovation projects to be awarded an initial grant from BEIS in January 2021. Following the feasibility study, Supercritical is now in the running for a second round of funding from BEIS to develop, deploy and scale this technology at Ardmore over the next three years.

On April 15th, OGTC ran a selective Partner only virtual technology showcase to introduce some of their favourite innovations and offer their Partners the opportunity to meet the talent behind the tech. Supercritical was selected as one of OGTC's game-changing technologies to look out for on the horizon.

Supercritical has been awarded £53,000 grant funding from BEIS (Dept for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy) to support a feasibility study into their novel water electrolysis technology’s ability to decarbonise the distillery sector. With their design, capable of operating at high temperatures and pressure, Supercritical aims to disrupt the hydrogen market with their high efficiency, low cost product.

It's argued that the rapid rate of population growth was down to one key chemical engineering breakthrough: the Haber-Bosch process. When Fritz Haber invented the process and Carl Bosch scaled it up, one doubts that they could have imagined the impact that theammonia production technology could have had on our planet.

With one proton and one electron (no neutrons), hydrogen is the simplest of all elements, taking its rightful place at the start of the periodic table.Hydrogen atoms that have been stripped of their only electron, become positively charged and form the basis for how fuel cells can use hydrogen without burning it to create electricity (with about 60% efficiency). These positive atoms (protons) are also give things like lemon juice and vinegar their distinctive sharp taste! They float around in these solutions and are the key component of acids.

In March 2020, Supercritical's Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Gaël Gobaille-Shaw, presented to the TechX panel at the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) in Aberdeen. Demonstrating Supercritical's potential to dramatically improve the economical viability of green hydrogen, Supercritical won an invitation to be one of 12 Pioneers in this year's TechX accelerator.

Supercritical Solutions Ltd (Supercritical) was formally incorporated in Companies House on the 29th June 2020. Born out of Deep Science Venture's Carbon Neutral Fuels programme, Supercritical vows to deliver process technology that will enable the uptake of green hydrogen.