Bry-Air, a dehumidification and environmental control solutions specialist, has announced its entry into new domains such as carbon capture, NMP Recovery and air-to-water generators for green hydrogen as the company celebrates its 60th anniversary.
With its air-to-water generation technology, the company not only looks to help water-stressed areas but also participate in the Green Hydrogen revolution.
“In green hydrogen, solar power is harnessed to make it green. But the more important part is that you need to have water to produce hydrogen through electrolysis. Solar resource-rich areas like Rajasthan face acute water scarcity. So, water is to be extracted from the atmosphere and that’s the technology we are now getting into. We call water so generated ‘white water’ as the system to harness water from the atmosphere is also powered by solar power,” Deepak Pahwa, Chairman of the Pahwa Group and Managing Director of Bry-Air, told pv magazine.
Pahwa said, Bry-Air is likely to work on such a project on another continent very soon. “It’s the first project of this type for green hydrogen in a very desert area. The area has a high solar power potential but is water-stressed. That’s where we have been shortlisted as one of the two likely candidates. We have undertaken the prototype system. When the prototype is up and running, 500 units of the system will be installed to produce huge quantity of hydrogen. Each solution is $2 million. So the total requirement is worth about a billion dollars for this project alone.”
Pahwa said this is just the beginning, and they see a lot of opportunity in this space as harnessing pure water from the atmosphere is cheaper than converting seawater into pure water.
Bry-Air is also looking to create solutions to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere.
“There are two areas of carbon capture. One is post combustion. That’s been around for a while, but the new thing coming up in the world now is to directly capture carbon from the atmosphere. We are developing some good solutions to capture carbon directly from the atmosphere,” said Pahwa.
Pahwa said, “We, ourselves, are putting up a 5 ton per year plant as a demo unit in our factory. We are doing it more as a technology provider. We will be involved in the adsorption side, which is critical to the whole project. And we are putting in a lot of research and development in that area.”
Within the existing domain of dehumidification, Bry-Air is set to break new grounds in energy efficiency as it reaches rotor regeneration temperature at 80 degree Celsius, significantly reducing the operational cost of running a dehumidifier. Additionally, it has developed low dew point dehumidifiers for lithium-ion cell manufacturing globally.
Bry-Air is a flagship company of the Pahwa Group. Founded in 1964 in the USA by Art Harms as an offshoot of Bryant, a division of Carrier Corp. that manufactured desiccant-based dehumidifiers, Bry-Air is today a global leader in adsorption-based technologies with continuous advancement in material science. Bry-Air has secured 84 patents, and in the month of Oct. 2024 itself, it filed seven patents for its future technologies.
Bry-Air’s global footprint includes installations in over 80 countries, with subsidiaries in China, Malaysia, Brazil, Nigeria, and Switzerland, and an associate plant in the USA. The company also maintains representative offices in various countries across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and South America, with 13 manufacturing facilities and a workforce of over 1,500 employees across the Pahwa Group, including 800 in Bry-Air. Bry-Air has secured 84 patents.
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