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YBG Industrial · Engineering Implementation Division

Engineering
Industrial
Performance.

YBG Industrial transforms engineering insight into practical implementation — through advanced combustion technologies, process integration and industrial optimisation systems.

The YBG Sequence

Engineering begins with understanding.

Every implementation is preceded by analysis. Before an intervention reaches an operating asset, the thermodynamic behaviour of that asset must be understood on its own terms — as it actually runs, not as it was originally specified.

That analytical layer is where YBG Global operates. YBG Global discovers the opportunity; YBG Industrial engineers the solution. The two are sequential, not parallel — and the discipline of the sequence is what makes the engineering credible.

YBG Industrial takes the engineered baseline established upstream and turns it into deployed hardware, integrated controls, commissioned systems and validated performance.

Upstream — YBG Global

Thermodynamic diagnostics. Historian-derived baselining. Opportunity identification.

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Downstream — YBG Industrial

Engineering, integration, commissioning and validation of the intervention on the operating asset.

Implementation Pathways

Six engineering routes into an operating thermal asset.

HydroHub™

On-demand industrial oxyhydrogen as a combustion-adjacent intervention. No fuel switching, no bulk H₂ storage.

Brown's Gas

Application of the Brown's Gas principle — mixed oxyhydrogen — as an engineered combustion enhancer in industrial contexts.

Combustion optimisation

Burner tuning, air-fuel ratio management and flame characterisation against the engineered baseline.

Retrofit engineering

Physical integration into legacy boilers, furnaces and kilns without disturbing the primary control architecture.

Process integration

Interfacing with plant DCS, burner management systems and utility loops under audit-grade change control.

Future technologies

Structured evaluation pathway for emerging combustion and thermal-efficiency technologies as they mature.

HydroHub™

Industrial oxyhydrogen, engineered as a subordinated intervention.

HydroHub™ is the mature form of YBG Industrial's combustion-enhancement engineering. On-demand oxyhydrogen is generated at point of use and injected into the combustion zone as a subordinated, rate-controlled companion to the primary fuel.

The engineering philosophy is deliberately conservative. Fully interlocked with the host burner management system. No bulk hydrogen or oxygen storage. No modification of the primary fuel handling, steam circuit or control architecture. Rate-limited operation with an audit-grade safety case.

Results are measured, not asserted — against an engineered pre-deployment baseline, using YBG's standard Measurement and Verification protocol. Site-specific outcomes depend on combustion architecture and feedstock.

Engineering Lifecycle

A staged engagement, from assessment through to long-cycle support.

01
Assessment

Site walk-down, historian review, baseline scoping.

02
Design

Skid layout, injection geometry, interlock architecture.

03
Integration

Mechanical install, control tie-ins, BMS interfacing.

04
Commissioning

Cold and hot commissioning, safety validation, tuning.

05
Validation

M&V against the engineered baseline. Independent instrumentation where required.

06
Support

Long-cycle operational support and performance monitoring.

Industries Served

Heavy industry. Utility-scale thermal assets.

Coal
Gas
Cement
Steel
Glass
Mining
Chemical
Utilities
Safety Case

Engineered to industrial safety standards.

Every deployment is scoped, designed and commissioned under the safety expectations of the host asset — not adjacent to them. Interlocks are integrated, not appended.

Engineering standards

Design conforms to applicable industrial and pressure-system codes for the host jurisdiction.

Interlocks

Physically and logically interlocked with the host burner management system. Fail-safe by design.

Risk assessment

HAZOP-style review as part of the engineering package prior to commissioning.

Industrial compliance

Change management, operator training and documentation aligned to plant compliance regime.

Technology Heritage

Research Professor Yull Brown.

The oxyhydrogen principle at the core of HydroHub™ traces to the work of Research Professor Yull Brown, whose mid-twentieth-century research established the industrial characteristics of the mixed oxyhydrogen gas that now carries his name.

YBG Industrial's engineering lineage sits in that tradition — combustion-adjacent, empirically grounded, and applied to real operating plant.

Discovery upstream. Engineering downstream.

Engage YBG Industrial once the opportunity is defined. The engineering engagement is staged — assessment, design, integration, commissioning, validation, support — with no capital at risk until the intervention is engineered.