Project description
Cost-effective green hydrogen production from ammonia
Ammonia can be decomposed (cracked) to yield hydrogen gas along with nitrogen. Current approaches require very high temperatures and pressures. The EU-funded ANDREAH project aims to develop an advanced, environmentally friendly ammonia decomposition process leading to nearly 100 % pure hydrogen via use of a catalytic membrane reactor. The process’s optimised heat management, improved conversion per pass and purification/recycling will enable ammonia cracking at lower temperatures and decreased use of critical raw materials, while slashing costs. It will rely on environmentally friendly structured catalysts integrated with advanced hydrogen-selective carbon molecular sieve membranes and coupled with a sorbent-based hydrogen polishing step. Ultimately, ANDREAH aims to support a spin-off company to commercialise the technology.
Objective
While many hard-to-abate sectors would benefit from a wide availability of green ammonia in Europe, the development of ammonia cracking technologies remains a prerequisite to unlock the full potential of ammonia as a hydrogen carrier. ANDREAH’s main objective is to provide a quantum leap in the development of advanced ammonia decomposition technologies to produce ultra-pure hydrogen (>99.998%) by developing an innovative system based on a Catalytic Membrane Reactor (CMR) for the cracking of Ammonia. In this way, optimised heat management, improved conversion per pass and purification/recycling for more cost-efficient and resource-effective ammonia decomposition at lower temperatures (400-450ºC) compared to conventional systems resulting in a decrease of CAPEX and OPEX of the system, that will bring the decentralized cost of H2 from 5.51 euro/kg to 4.27 euro/kg, with a decrease of 22.5%. For this purpose environmentally friendy and with less CRMs (80-90% less compared to conventional packed bed systems) structured catalyts will be developed and scaled up and integrated with advanced H2 selective Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes and coupled with a sorbent-based hydrogen polishing step for fuel cell grade. Moreover, the complete system will be validated at TRL5 at the facilities of VTTI in the port of Rotterdam. Finally, a complete LCA, LCC and HSA will be performed over the entire value chain of ANDREAH. Appart from the different exploitable results of the project, the ambition of ANDREAH is to create a spin-off company that can exploit the advanced ammonia cracking system. KIC InnoEnergy supported more than 480 cleantech start-ups in the last decades and will provide support and advice to launch and boost the new spin-off.
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-2
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48160 DERIO BIZKAIA
Spain
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