Low cost catalytic conversion of methane to high purity hydrogen for use in the Foundation Industries

该项目汇集了不同的基础工业，大宗化学品和玻璃生产，以实现共享使用功能性碳生产的氢副产品作为浮法玻璃制造供应的机会。这项影响力巨大的可行性研究有可能为英国的主要工业部门增加价值。该项目的合作伙伴是两家基础产业公司，一家初创企业和一家知识中心（剑桥大学）。领导这一提议的公司是功能性碳材料制造（Q Flo）和玻璃制造领域的世界专家（皮尔金顿，NGS），并在创新制造工艺的商业化方面有着良好的记录。该项目通过提供一种创新的、低成本的同时生产清洁和可用氢气以及高价值和可用的碳产品的有效途径。这将导致工艺和工业的共生。该项目将展示和评估利用甲烷原料生产优质氢气和高价值碳产品的商业潜力，成功将使英国在这一新兴的共同资源利用技术领域占据重要领先地位。它还将在英国嵌入技术，并打开潜力，利用重大的出口机会。该项目代表工业研究，建立在现有的商业活动的成功，以及独特的英国学术知识。在确保了生产先进材料的能力之后，该项目如果获得资助，将加速开发利用未使用的副产品氢气作为玻璃制造的来源。IUK的资金将允许快速开发和试验这种新的制氢技术。这将包括由基础工业部门的成员对用作工艺化学品进行评估。输出将是用于生产示范规模工厂的稳健、环境可接受和投资就绪的工艺设计。虽然该项目位于英国，但其应用是国际性的，并建立在剑桥大学赠款和商业资助工作的创新和研究基础上;其成功完成将锚在英国的这一全球重要技术。与玻璃市场的全球参与者NSG的合作将开辟一条全球市场之路。交付该项目将有助于推进英国实现零碳经济的目标，同时为寻求使用高性能碳基材料的制造和开发公司提供先发优势。

This project brings together different foundation industries, bulk chemical and glass production, to realize shared opportunities for use of hydrogen by-product from functional carbon production as a supply to float glass manufacturing. This high-impact feasibility study has potential to add value to key UK industry sectors. The project partners are two Foundation Industry companies, an start up and a knowledge centre (University of Cambridge).The companies leading this proposal are world experts in functional carbon materials manufacturing (Q Flo) and glass manufacturing (Pilkington, NGS) and have strong track records of commercializing innovative manufacturing processes.The project directly addresses issues of resource utilization by delivering an innovative and cost-effective route to simultaneously produce clean and usable hydrogen alongside high value and usable carbon products. This will result in symbiosis in processes and industries. The project will demonstrate and evaluate the commercial potential of using methane feedstock to generate quality hydrogen gas and high value carbon products.Success will enable the UK to take an important lead in this emerging sector of common resource utilization technologies. It will also embed technology in the UK and open the potential to exploit significant export opportunities.The project represents Industrial Research that builds on the success of both existing commercial activities, as well as unique UK academic knowledge. Having secured the ability to produce advanced materials the project, if funded, will accelerate development of exploitation of an unused co-product, hydrogen, as a source for glass manufacturing.IUK funding will allow rapid development and trialling of this new technology for hydrogen production. This will include evaluation by members of the Foundation Industry sector for use as a process chemical.The output will be a robust, environmentally acceptable and investment ready process design for a production demonstrator scale plant. Although based in the UK, the project is international in its application and builds on innovation and research from grant and commercially funded work at the University of Cambridge; its successful completion will anchor this globally important technology in the UK. The collaboration with NSG, global players in the glass market, will open a global route to market.Delivering this project will facilitate advancement of the UK's goal of achieving a carbon zero economy while offering first mover advantage to manufacturing and development companies seeking to utilise high performance carbon based materials.