Collaboration to develop manufacturing methods of electric microreactors for clean hydrogen production

氢被广泛认为是未来的燃料，但最终需要完全不排放碳。今天大多数氢气是由甲烷催化重整产生的。实现反应所需的热量是通过天然气燃烧产生的，产生大量的二氧化碳。公关,马修皮卡德和公关。吕克·弗雷谢特路易斯塔里夫(ud)大学的团队开发了高度集成电热微反应器能够生产零排放氢代替气体加热可再生电力和支持碳捕捉的出口流。目前，这些反应堆是通过粉末床熔融金属增材制造制造的，每个反应堆需要8小时，成本高达750加元，但它们必须以更快、更可靠的制造方法在工业规模上制造。扩散键合有可能使每天最多75个反应器的生产更加一致，同时将每个单元的成本降低到100加元。与德国<s:1>国家核研究中心Khöler连接技术和材料测试研究所（ifw耶拿）合作的目标是实现扩散键合，电加热蒸汽甲烷重整（SMR）反应堆的概念验证，并与德国研究中心建立牢固而持久的关系。ifw耶拿是一家在先进制造方面拥有丰富专业知识的应用导向研究中心。这项工作的主要潜在影响是为UdeS微反应器提供可靠的制造工艺，这是通过可再生能源生产净零排放氢气的关键一步。加拿大和德国签署了一项协议，将在绿色能源创新和贸易方面展开合作，重点是开发绿色氢，从水力发电中出口到德国，这源于两国到2050年实现净零排放的目标。除了环境效益外，氢能本身也是一个巨大的经济机会，因为该行业估计价值500亿加元，可创造多达35万个就业岗位。

Hydrogen is widely regarded as the fuel of the future, but will eventually need to be entirely produced without carbon emission. Most hydrogen today is produced by catalytic reforming of methane. The heat needed to achieve the reaction is produced through combustion of natural gas, generating large amounts of CO2. Pr. Mathieu Picard and Pr. Luc Fréchette's team at Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS) have developed highly integrated electrically-heated microreactors able to produce net-zero emission hydrogen by replacing gas heating by renewable electricity and favoring carbon-capture in the outlet stream. The reactors are currently being made through powder-bed fusion metal additive manufacturing, taking 8 hours and costing up to 750 C$ per reactors, but they must be manufactured at an industrial scale with faster and more reliable manufacturing methods. Diffusion bonding has the potential of enabling a more consistent production of up to 75 reactors per day while reducing the cost of each individual unit down to 100 C$. The goal of the partnership with the Günter Khöler Institute for Joining Technology and Materials Testing (ifw Jena) from Germany, an application-oriented research center with vast expertise on advanced manufacturing, is to achieve a proof-of-concept for a diffusion bonded, electrically heated steam methane reforming (SMR) reactor and build a strong and lasting relationship with the German research center. The main potential impact of this work is to enable a reliable manufacturing process for the UdeS microreactors, a crucial step towards the production of hydrogen through renewable energy with net zero emission.Canada and Germany signed an agreement to team up on green energy innovation and trade, with a focus on the development of green hydrogen from hydroelectric power for export to Germany, stemming from both countries' goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Additionally to its environmental benefits, hydrogen also presents itself as a great economic opportunity, since the sector is estimated at C$ 50 billions and could create up to 350 000 jobs.