HyPRO
Title: HyPRO - "Towards flexible, durable, and high-performance Hydrogen Production Technology"
Duration: 2024 - 2028
Researchers: Amir Khodabakhsh, Simona M. Cristescu
Cost estimate: 50 M€
Funding: GroenvermogenNL
Project partners: HyPRO is a collaboration of 10 universities, five colleges, two research institutes and more than 40 companies
More information: https://groenvermogennl.org/en/nieuws/launch-of-research-project-on-green-hydrogen-production-technologies-the-largest-of-its-kind/ (English) and https://groenvermogennl.org/nieuws/grootste-onderzoeksproject-naar-waterstofproductietechnologie-gaat-van-start/ (Dutch)
Researchers from TDLab have teamed up with 58 international parties from research and industry to work together on more sustainable production of hydrogen by electrolysis & plasma technology.
The HyPRO project received a subsidy of €34.5 million and a total budget of €50 million within WP1 of the GroenvermogenNL, becoming the largest R&D project into green hydrogen in the Netherlands to date.
Like the rest of the world, the Netherlands is faced with an immense climate challenge. As part of the Nationaal Groeifonds, GroenvermogenNL is the Netherlands’ approach to transform a fossil-based society and industry towards a green future. Green hydrogen acts as a tractive force to support this transition. Large scale process industry, as well as decentralized applications need green hydrogen as a key element in the transition to carbon neutrality.
Plasma-based methane conversion to hydrogen through offers a promising route for sustainable hydrogen production, thanks to its high efficiency, flexibility, and product customization possibilities.
Industrial residual gas valorization
Centralized large-scale conversion of industrial waste methane to hydrogen and C2 molecules in the context of the tail gas from naphtha crackers is a national priority. Rather than burning the methane for energy, better use it to produce plastic precursors, like ethylene or acetylene, and effectively increase the carbon efficiency in the process. Together with plasma specialists from Univ. Maastricht, TDLab will be involved in performing research on the efficiency of industrial residual gas valorisation by methane pyrolysis in innovative plasma reactors. In particular, we will design a multispecies gas detection system to measure the products relevant for optimizing the plasma conversion and improve the current prediction models.
“We are looking forward to this broad collaboration and connection with the industrial parties.” (Simona Cristescu).
