Titel of the activity: Feasibility Study and business case for a 100% Hydrogen in-situ premix combustion system
Objective: Elaborate the technology roadmap for the selection of manufacturing equipment to ramp up and the market entry and market multiplication strategy, all to be summarised in a business plan.
Context:
The promeos innovation project “New in-situ premix gas burners” makes the combustion of difficult to handle gaseous fuels like hydrogen or hot gases more efficient, less polluting, less noisy, safer and more compact compared to state of the art burners, thus opening up new markets. Hydrogen or (lean) biogas mixtures, landfill gas or (pyrolysis) process gases today often need to be flared and are simply wasted. promeos is for the first time ever enabling the well controlled, more efficient and cleaner combustion of these fossil or renewable gaseous fuels, thus helping protect the climate.
The new in-situ premix gas burners target at global industrial markets worth billions of Euro, wherever high temperature heat is required and process gas – of any calorific value and composition - is available locally as a fuel. The in-situ premix gas burners can also be used in automotive or fuel cell applications.
The objective of the action was to find out how to enter the market for “Hydrogen-to-heat” solutions based on a unique technology and product portfolio enabling to address many still unknown needs.
The context of the action was given by the SME conditions at promeos. promeos is nearly 10 years active on the global market with “Gas-to-heat” solutions for various industries but not direct towards the consumer.
The action was carried out by means of desktop research, technical developments in our own laboratories and face-to-face and telephone interviews with prospective pilot customers. The findings were distributed through the promeos homepage (see: H2 at landing page of www.promeos.com linked to http://www.promeos.com/cms/front_content.php?idart=793 ), two in-house exhibitions at our site in Nürnberg with approx. 50 business visitors each in October 2015 and January 2016, and a speech at the Birmingham Fuel cell and hydrogen event 2016 (https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/news/hydrogen-and-fuel-cell-conference-birmingham-hosts-sme-instrument-champions ).
