STructured unconventional reactors for CO2-fRee Methane catalytic crackING

STORMING将开发使用可再生电力加热的突破性和创新性结构反应器，将化石和可再生CH4转化为无CO2的H2和用于电池应用的高价值碳纳米材料。更具体地说，创新的铁基催化剂，高活性，易于通过无废物工艺再生，将通过智能合理的催化剂设计方案开发，该方案结合了理论（密度泛函理论和分子动力学计算）和实验（簇）研究，所有这些都得到了原位和操作表征和机器学习工具的帮助。由计算流体动力学设计并通过3D打印制备的结构化反应器的电气化（微波或焦耳加热）将实现精确的热控制，从而提高能源效率。该项目将在TRL 5验证最有前途的催化技术（选择时考虑到技术、经济和环境评估），以生产具有能源效率（> 60%）、净零排放和减少（约100%）的氢气。10%）的成本与常规工艺相比。结果的传播和交流将促进社会对氢相关技术的接受，并促进利益攸关方参与短期工艺开发和部署。实现STORMING挑战性目标的关键是高度互补和跨学科的联盟，基础和应用科学与工程，计算机和社会科学融合。

STORMING will develop breakthrough and innovative structured reactors heated using renewable electricity, to convert fossil and renewable CH4 into CO2-free H2 and highly valuable carbon nanomaterials for battery applications. More specifically, innovative Fe based catalysts, highly active and easily regenerable by waste-free processes, will be developed through a smart rational catalyst design protocol, which combines theoretical (Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics Calculations) and experimental (cluster) studies, all of them assisted by in situ & operando characterisation and Machine Learning tools. The electrification (microwave or joule-heated) of structured reactors, designed by Computational Fluid Dynamics and prepared by 3D printing, will enable an accurate thermal control resulting in high energy efficiency. The project will validate, at TRL 5, the most promising catalytic technology (chosen considering technological, economic, and environmental assessments) to produce H2 with energy efficiency (> 60%), net-zero emissions, and decreasing (ca. 10 %) the costs in comparison with the conventional process. The dissemination and communication of the results will boost the social acceptance of the H2-related technologies and the stakeholder engagement targeting short-term process exploitation and deployment. The key to reach the challenging objectives of STORMING is the highly complementary and interdisciplinary consortium, where basic and applied science merge with engineering, computer and social sciences.