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

合作开发用于清洁制氢的电微反应器的制造方法

• 批准号: 563691-2021
• 负责人: Picard, Mathieu
• 金额: $ 3.64万
• 依托单位: Université de Sherbrooke
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=723438
• 关键词: Collaboration; develop; manufacturing; methods; electric

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.

氢气被广泛认为是未来的燃料，但最终需要完全没有碳排放。今天，大多数氢气是通过甲烷的催化重整生产的。实现反应所需的热量是通过燃烧天然气产生的，从而产生大量的二氧化碳。公共关系Mathieu Picard和Pr.舍布鲁克大学的Luc Fréchette团队已经开发出高度集成的电加热微反应器，通过用可再生电力取代气体加热并有利于在出口气流中捕集碳来生产净零排放氢气。这些反应堆目前是通过粉末床熔融金属添加剂制造制造的，耗时8小时，每个反应堆的成本高达750加元，但它们必须以更快、更可靠的制造方法进行工业化制造。扩散焊接有可能实现更稳定的生产，每天最多生产75个反应堆，同时将每个单元的成本降低到100加元。与德国的Günter Khöler技术与材料测试研究所(IFW JENA)合作的目标是实现扩散粘结式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。这项工作的主要潜在影响是为UdeS微反应堆提供可靠的制造工艺，这是通过净零排放的可再生能源生产氢气的关键一步。加拿大和德国签署了一项协议，在绿色能源创新和贸易方面展开合作，重点是开发出口到德国的水力发电绿色氢气，这源于两国到2050年实现净零排放的目标。除了对环境的好处外，氢气也是一个巨大的经济机会，因为该行业估计价值500亿加元，可以创造多达35万个就业机会。