Engineering
Industrial
Performance.
YBG Industrial transforms engineering insight into practical implementation — through advanced combustion technologies, process integration and industrial optimisation systems.
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.
Thermodynamic diagnostics. Historian-derived baselining. Opportunity identification.
ControlAlign™ — Measure & Verify →Engineering, integration, commissioning and validation of the intervention on the operating asset.
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.
Industrial Oxyhydrogen
Engineered application of mixed oxyhydrogen as a combustion enhancer in industrial boilers, kilns, and furnaces.
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.
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.
A staged engagement, from assessment through to long-cycle support.
Assessment
Stage 1 (paid): enterprise or site assessment — historian review, baseline, engineering and economic case.
Design
Stage 2 (paid, per site): plant engineering and specification — skid layout, injection geometry, interlocks.
Integration
Stage 3: equipment supply. Installation is contracted by the client with a local execution party, to YBG specification.
Commissioning
Cold and hot commissioning by the execution party against YBG protocols, safety validation, tuning.
Validation
M&V against the engineered baseline. Independent instrumentation where required.
Support
Long-cycle operational support and performance monitoring.
Heavy industry. Utility-scale thermal assets.
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.
Design conforms to applicable industrial and pressure-system codes for the host jurisdiction.
Physically and logically interlocked with the host burner management system. Fail-safe by design.
HAZOP-style review as part of the engineering package prior to commissioning.
Change management, operator training and documentation aligned to plant compliance regime.
Dr Peter Griffiths (second from left) with Research Professor Yull Brown (front centre-right), Beijing, PRC, 1991 — during YBG's direct engineering collaboration with Brown's Gas technology's original researcher, 1985–1998.
Four decades. One direct line to the technology's origin.
Industrial oxyhydrogen combustion enhancement traces to the original research of Yull Brown, whose work in electrolysis-based gas generation began the field. YBG Group's engagement with this technology is not academic or licensed at a distance — it is direct. Founder Dr. Peter Griffiths worked alongside Yull Brown from 1985 to 1998, engineering the technology hands-on during its formative industrial applications.
That lineage has continued, unbroken, for four decades — through the same engineering discipline, the same combustion-science foundation, applied now to utility-scale thermal assets across coal, gas, cement, and industrial steam generation.
Average steam-to-fuel ratio improvement across ten biomass-fired plants in seven Indian states, measured by YBG with the client's engineering teams — published in a joint UIBC / Nangia Andersen report issued under NTPC's imprint.
NOx reduction measured at instrumented stacks across the same ten-plant biomass-fired fleet.
Baseline measurement, pilot deployment, and verification before any scale-up commitment.
Industrial oxyhydrogen at utility scale is still an early-stage field, industry-wide — no vendor, YBG included, currently operates an integrated system above 100 TPH equivalent capacity. Where YBG's lineage matters is in what that absence of precedent actually rests on: forty years of direct, hands-on engineering discipline, not four years of a company entering a trend.
HydroHub™ — the direct answers
What is HydroHub™?
HydroHub™ is YBG Industrial's on-demand Industrial Oxyhydrogen platform. It generates an oxyhydrogen gas stream by alkaline electrolysis and introduces it into an existing combustion environment — a boiler, furnace or kiln — as a combustion-adjacent intervention. It is not a fuel substitute and does not replace the primary fuel; it modifies flame chemistry and radiative heat transfer so that more of the fuel's energy reaches the process.
What results has HydroHub™ Industrial Oxyhydrogen achieved?
The documented record is a 13% average steam-to-fuel ratio improvement across ten biomass-fired plants in seven Indian states, measured by YBG with the client's engineering teams, and a 60% NOx reduction measured at instrumented stacks. The client reports average annual fuel savings of ₹7.6 Cr and payback under two years at all ten sites. The results were published in a joint UIBC / Nangia Andersen report issued under NTPC's imprint. Results are site-specific and established through baseline studies and Measurement & Verification protocols, not generalised guarantees.
Is HydroHub™ the same as HHO?
The equipment class is sometimes searched for as "HHO". That term is hobby-level shorthand and is not used in engineering specification. Industrial Oxyhydrogen describes continuous-duty, instrumented, safety-interlocked generation designed for utility and process-plant service, with defined gas purity, flow control and shutdown logic.
What industries does YBG Industrial serve?
Coal and gas thermal power, cement, steel, glass, mining, chemical processing, waste-to-energy, and FMCG process heat and utilities — any operator running continuous fired thermal assets where fuel cost, thermal efficiency or emissions compliance is material.
Is Industrial Oxyhydrogen an established or a new technology?
Both, depending on scale. The underlying combustion-enhancement work has four decades of engineering history and a documented multi-site industrial deployment record. At utility scale the field remains early-stage industry-wide: no vendor, YBG included, currently operates an integrated system above 100 TPH equivalent capacity. That is why engagements are staged: a paid enterprise or site assessment, paid per-site plant engineering and specification, then equipment supply. Equipment is specified only after the engineering case is made.
More on terminology: HHO vs Industrial Oxyhydrogen.
Discovery upstream. Engineering downstream.
Engage YBG Industrial once the opportunity is defined. Engagements begin with a paid site or enterprise assessment. Equipment is specified only after the engineering case is made. Installation is contracted by the client directly with a local execution party.