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.

氢被广泛认为是未来的燃料，但最终需要完全生产而没有碳排放。如今，大多数氢是通过甲烷的催化重整产生的。实现反应所需的热量是通过压缩天然气产生的，产生了大量的二氧化碳。 PR。 Mathieu Picard and pr。 LucFréchette在Sherbrooke大学（UDES）的团队开发了高度集成的电加热微反应器，可以通过通过可再生电力代替气体加热并在出口流中替代碳捕获碳来生产净零排放氢。反应堆目前是通过粉末床融合金属添加剂制造制成的，需要8个小时，并且每个反应堆的成本高达750 c $，但必须以工业规模制造，并采用更快，更可靠的制造方法制造。扩散键合的潜力可以使每天最多75个反应堆的一致性产生，同时将每个单位的成本降低到100 c $。与GünterKhöler研究所合作的目的是加入技术和材料测试（IFW Jena），来自德国（IFW Jena）是一个面向应用程序的研究中心，具有庞大的高级制造业专业知识，是为了实现概念验证，以证明扩散，电力加热的蒸汽甲烷改革（SMR）反应堆和持久的德国研究中心的扩散，电力加热的蒸汽甲烷改革（SMR）。 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.除了其环境福利外，氢气还将自己作为一个巨大的经济机会，因为该行业估计为500亿美元，最多可创造35万个就业机会。