Overview

Wildfire Energy aims to revolutionise waste management and clean energy production through commercialisation of its proprietary Moving Injection Horizontal Gasification (MIHG) technology, which was recently recognised by winning the IChemE Global Sustainability Award for 2025.

The core objective of the MIHG technology is to convert biomass and residual wastes into clean syngas, an aggregate for recycling and optional biochar, thereby eliminating landfill and a better option than incineration while producing renewable energy products such as electricity, combined heat and power, hydrogen and biofuels with negative net carbon emissions.

This talk will provide an overview of the MIHG technology and Wildfire Energy's plans to commercialise it.

The talk will cover the following topics:

• key waste management and renewable fuel problem
• overview of MIHG technology
• summary of 1 tpd pilot plant and processing of heterogeneous wastes like MSW and C&D wastes
• scaled-up designs and go to market product
• case studies for producing combined heat and power, hydrogen and biofuels
• lifecycle GHG emissions and indicative costs
• overview of first commercial project under development.

The broader aim is to position MIHG as a scalable, modular solution for decentralised waste-to-energy generation, particularly suited to urban, regional, and remote communities.

Speaker

Greg Perkins, CEO, Wildfire Energy

Greg is a co-founder and CEO of Wildfire Energy, an Australian cleantech company developing the MIHG process for converting residual wastes at distributed scale into valuable products including electricity, hydrogen and bio-fuels/chemicals.

Greg has 25 years of industry experience with companies including Rio Tinto and Shell International and was also an Adjunct Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland for eight years.

Greg's career has largely focused on the commercialisation and deployment of gasification and syngas valorisation technologies. His PhD was on developing models for coal gasification and at Shell he worked in the hydrogen and gasification team on projects globally, starting up a novel heat-integrated POX unit as part of a commercial Gas to Liquids plant in Malaysia.

He has published more than 25 peer reviewed journal articles, three book chapters and holds more than 10 patents. Greg is a Chartered Member of IChemE.

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Clean Energy Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

09:00–10:30 GMT.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. We recommend downloading the app from the Microsoft website, rather than using the web portal.