NewHydrogen, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clarita and the developer of ThermoLoop, has announced the appointment of Ryan Patrick as Senior Chemical Engineer.

ThermoLoop is a breakthrough technology that uses water and heat rather than renewable electricity to produce the world’s cheapest clean hydrogen.

Patrick’s work with NewHydrogen supports the development of cost-effective, entropy-driven thermochemical water-splitting technology. His work focuses on translating laboratory-scale experimental results into pilot-scale and pre-commercial process designs, with an emphasis on thermochemical hydrogen production, high-temperature reaction systems, and materials-driven process development.

“Few engineers possess Ryan’s level of practical and technical depth in experimental design and execution,” said Steve Hill, CEO of NewHydrogen. “His experience evaluating, adapting, and commercializing novel technologies aligns perfectly with our mission to deliver the world’s cheapest green hydrogen.”

“I’m excited to join the talented team at NewHydrogen and help advance a truly game-changing technology,” said Patrick. “Scaling up ThermoLoop is a unique opportunity to apply my engineering knowledge to accelerate the global transition to clean, cheap hydrogen.”

Patrick most recently served in systems operations at SpaceX, contributing to upgrades and infrastructure improvements for launch activities. Earlier in his career, he led experimental campaigns supporting novel energy conversion technologies at CZero Inc., integrating experimental results into process models to guide technology development and scale-up.

To learn more about NewHydrogen’s work with leading scientists at UC Santa Barbara to develop the world’s cheapest green hydrogen, please visit NewHydrogen.com.

NewHydrogen is developing ThermoLoop, a breakthrough technology that uses water and heat instead of electricity to produce the world’s cheapest clean hydrogen. Hydrogen is important to modern life, and we can’t live without it. Hydrogen is the key ingredient in making fertilizers needed to grow food for the world. It is also used for transportation, refining oil and making steel, glass, pharmaceuticals and more. Nearly all the hydrogen today is made from hydrocarbons like coal, oil and natural gas, which are dirty and limited resources. Water, on the other hand, is an infinite and renewable worldwide resource. Currently, the most common way of making clean hydrogen is to split water into oxygen and hydrogen with electricity using an electrolyzer, a very expensive process. By using heat directly, we can dramatically reduce the use of expensive electricity. A massive source of inexpensive heat can be obtained from current and future power plants, especially small modular nuclear reactors. Working with a world class research team at UC Santa Barbara, our goal is to help usher in the clean hydrogen economy that Goldman Sachs estimated to have a future market value of $12 trillion.