Me²H2-Methane pyrolysis

State of the Art

Hydrogen has a steadily growing importance as an industrial feedstock in many industrial processes, as a flexible energy sources or in the field of mobility
Currently hydrogen is produced predominantly in industrially established processes that use fossil fuels and generate CO2 in proportion to the quantities of hydrogen produced
New low carbon technologies for hydrogen production, e.g. the water electrolysis, are still in the development stage and yield a high specific energy consumption
Due to the significant rise in demand for electricity in the future, economically viable, CO2-neutral hydrogen production must, above all, be energy-efficient

Project agenda

Comparative technical and economic evaluation of possible process variants for methane pyrolysis with other industrial processes of hydrogen production
Characterization of carbon from methane pyrolysis and specification of quality criteria for the exploitation in steel industry applications
Investigation of the mechanical processing and thermal utilization of the solid pyrolysis carbon to set the required quality criteria
Supply and evaluation of carbonaceous sample batches for selected applications
Establish an evaluation matrix as a basis for selecting possible applications for the carbon products

Desired results

Development of an industrial process to produce H2 by natural gas pyrolysis
Development of a plant concept that enables CO2-neutral hydrogen production
Development of quality requirements for the recovery of pyrolytic carbonaceous materials in steel industry processes
Establishment of a recovery concept for the resulting carbon

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