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
