At a glance
| Booth | I3000 |
| Country | GB |
| Website | www.luxindustries.co.uk |
Company profile
Lux Industries Ltd is an Oxford-based clean-energy company pioneering Hydrogen-as-a-Service (HaaS). Its approach uses modular, containerised hydrogen-liquefaction technology to deliver ultra-high-purity, low-cost, on-site and on-demand green hydrogen to the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The company's patent-pending proprietary heat exchangers are stated to be 100× smaller in volume than conventional systems. This compact heat-exchanger design enables a fully integrated containerised system that can produce, liquefy, store, and supply green liquid hydrogen directly at the point of use, eliminating transport and reducing costs and emissions. At TRL 6, Lux Industries Ltd reports a working cryogenic heat-exchanger prototype capable of producing 100 kg of liquid hydrogen per day, with capacity designed to scale to 1000 kg/ day for large semiconductor facilities. The company reports securing £975,000 in combined private investment and government funding. It also reports completing a £1M Innovate UK collaborative project with ZeroAvia, the University of Southampton, and Wessington Cryogenics. A further £1.5 million collaborative project with SunGreenH2 and Brunel University is described as co-funded by Innovate UK and Enterprise Singapore. Lux Industries Ltd is seeking semiconductor-manufacturer collaborations for feasibility studies, demonstrations and trial infrastructure integrations of its on-site hydrogen supply, collaborations with partners adopting clean-energy solutions, and partners for international grant-funded technology-development, demonstration and trial projects.
Exhibits
Hydrogen-as-a-Service (HaaS) is presented as on-demand, scalable hydrogen production without the need for costly infrastructure, setup, or transportation. Lux Industries Ltd states that it uses available low- and zero-carbon electricity sources including solar for yellow H2, renewables for green H2, and nuclear for pink H2, while rejecting carbon-based energy sources. Its T-100 system is described as producing, liquefying, and supplying hydrogen directly on-site, while the modular containerised solution allows hydrogen demand to scale and uses a subscription-based maintenance model for reliability. The HaaS model is also described in terms of rapid deployment and localised supply intended to make hydrogen more accessible, practical, and cost-effective. In its liquid-hydrogen value-chain model, Lux Industries Ltd uses decentralised production and on-site, on-demand generation to eliminate dependence on large centralised plants, long-distance transportation, and extensive storage infrastructure. The company contrasts this with conventional liquid-hydrogen production in large centralised plants at scales up to tens of tonnes per day, primarily using fossil-fuel energy, followed by transport over hundreds of kilometers that can take days. That conventional model is described as requiring large-scale storage at the point of use together with additional permitting, licensing, and capital-intensive infrastructure at the delivery site. By producing liquid hydrogen on-site and on-demand, the Lux Industries Ltd model eliminates transportation and reduces the required storage scale from tonnes to kilograms. Its modular systems can also connect to pre-existing large-scale on-site storage and fill that storage without the transportation element of the conventional value chain.
Capabilities and products
- on-site high-purity green hydrogen supply for semiconductors
- modular containerized on-site hydrogen production and liquefaction systems
- subscription-based hydrogen system maintenance
- cryogenic heat exchanger development for hydrogen liquefaction
- on-site hydrogen production system integration with existing large storage tanks