AFhelios
Turning sunlight and waste into the building block of a sustainable world
AFhelios is pioneering a solar-powered production pathway that transforms water and waste from carbon-neutral processes into valuable chemicals and hydrogen. This enables circular, fossil-free alternatives to everyday materials.
Problem
An Industry Built for Fossil-Fuels
Today's chemical and energy industries run on oil, gas and coal, both as the raw material for their products and as the fuel that powers production. Even hydrogen, often called the fuel of the future, is still made almost entirely from natural gas and coal. As long as the inputs are fossil, the output are too.
Carbon pricing, emissions targets and stricter reporting are pushing industry to decarbonise quickly. But the clean alternatives on offer are often still at lab scale or can't slot into existing operations, leaving companies under pressure with few practical options.
Conventional production depends on high temperatures, high pressures and long chains of separation steps, each adding energy demand, emissions and cost. Making hydrogen and making chemicals happen in separate plants, with separate footprints, even though they could share one process.
Green hydrogen and bio-based chemicals are still more expensive than their fossil counterparts, so sustainability to often means paying a premium. Until clean options can compete on price, adoption will stay slow. AFhelios closes that gap by turning one solar-driven process into two revenue streams.
Our Solution
Solar-Powered Chemistry for
a Fossil-Free Future
At AFhelios, we believe a fossil-free future is not only possible, it's practical. Green hydrogen is central to decarbonising industry, but today it struggles to compete on price with hydrogen made from fossil fuels. We're changing that.
Our technology produced hydrogen powered by nothing but sunlight. What sets it apart is what happens on the other side of the reaction: instead of wasting energy on producing oxygen, we use it to upgrade glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel production, into high-value chemicals used in polymers, cosmetics and advanced materials. Selling these co-products offsets the cost of hydrogen production, making green hydrogen economically competitve.
Backed by cutting edge research, AFhelios is building the foundation for an affordable, scalable green hydrogen economy.
Our Technology
A 2-in-1 Chemical Process
Our reactors absorb sunlight to split water into green hydrogen while converting industrial waste into valuable chemicals, all in a single step.
One reactor, two products
We are scaling our technology for deployment in sun-rich regions, where abundant sunlight means more hydrogen at lower cost.
Built for sunshine
Our panels are designed to evolve. As our materials research advances, each new generation delivers higher efficiency and longer lifetimes.
Committed to progress
