About KHIMOD
As a climate-tech company, KHIMOD decarbonizes hard-to-abate sectors and unlocks the potential of flow chemistry. KHIMOD’s technology is based on a revolutionary Heat Exchanger-Reactor which is produced thanks to a breakthrough technology developed over the last 20 years called diffusion bonding.
KHIMOD’s industrial site
Key Events
2024
Methycentre
Commissioning of KHIMOD’s methanation unit on a power-to-gas demonstrator with Storengy
2023
Jupiter 1000
Commissioning of KHIMOD’s methanation unit on a power-to-gas demonstrator with GRTGaz
2023
KHiMii’s Integration
Integration of KHiMii within KHIMOD to speed-up the development of our HERs in the chemical sector
2023
Launch of Avebio
Production aiming at sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), using CO₂ and hydrogen in collaboration with Elyse Energy
2022
Methanol commercial project
Confidential customer
2022
NYX Commercial Project
Design, setting up and operation of a super high purity methanation unit
2019
Creation of KHIMOD
Creation of KHIMOD as a spin-off of ATMOSTAT, a subsidiary of ALCEN
2016
METHAMOD
First innovative methanation demonstrator aiming to transform CO₂ and electricity/hydrogen into methane
2015
Partnership with CEA
Founding of a joint laboratory with CEA-Liten (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)
2014
ITER contracts
ATMOSTAT starts to be awarded contracts for the assembly of some key ITER components through a partnership with Fusion for Energy (F4E)
2003
Diffusion bonding: a solution for the ITER project
Identification of HIP (Hot Isostatic Pressure) technique as a potential key technology for the first wall panels
2000
ATMOSTAT
ATMOSTAT integrates ITER, starts exploring various assembly techniques and collaborates with CEA-Liten on a heterogeneous steel assembly method
1995
Launch of ITER project
Beginning of R&D activities on the fusion process, 5 years of research involving key stakeholders to identify technological priorities in the framework of ITER (international nuclear fusion research)