AMAZING

Additive Manufacturing for Zero-emission Innovative Green Chemistry

Hydrogen production

The use of renewable energy in combination with a membrane opens up not only the advantageous use of renewable electrical energy for reactor heating, but also the potential for improved co-product use, in this case of hydrogen. Thus, compared to conventional fossil-fuel heated reactor systems, such a reactor technology has the potential not only to almost completely clean up the CO2 footprint, but also to deliver 'green' hydrogen as a co-product that can be used as a material.

The aim of the project is therefore to develop an energy-efficient way to produce chemical building blocks (e.g. ethylene) from renewable energy by catalytic-reductive dehydrogenation in a MIEC membrane reactor using the 3D printing process and also the conventional process of film casting. The knowledge gained from the fabrication of the membrane reactor will be used to create an advanced membrane system consisting of a pure proton-conducting membrane as an H+ pump to further increase the efficiency of the system.

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