Green or Turquoise hydrogen by thermal pyrolysis intensification (GOT-H2)

加拿大中部省份严重依赖化石燃料生产，由于安全和技术问题，现有管道不支持纯氢流动。2019年，燃烧和排放约650万吨二氧化碳当量。应该设想解决这个问题的办法。这项发现补助金（DG）的长期目标是开发一种小规模的高停留时间非催化甲烷热解技术，旨在最大限度地提高氢气和碳的产量，并消除燃烧，显著减少加拿大石油工业的绿色气体排放。产生的部分氢气将维持提取电池并产生该过程所需的热量。最后的反应产生水、固体碳和能量。目前，没有解决方案可用于这个高排放行业，因为GtL技术要么共同产生CO2，要么不能完全转化溶解气体，在任何情况下都必须燃烧。此外，基于熔融盐的最新技术遭受污染问题，并且特征在于高资本费用（CAPEX）。 该计划的目标是：1。了解非催化热解反应的基本原理。开发天然气热解动力学模型，评估组分和工艺参数对氢气产率的影响，并探索减少反应器壁上碳形成的策略。此外，这项研究的范围不仅限于天然气，还包括其他能源，这些能源目前要么燃烧，要么没有适当地捕获相关的二氧化碳，如垃圾填埋气和沼气。2.实施电气化，即感应加热，以开发一种强化过程，最终可以生产氢气或其他能量分子，如甲醇3。为环境技术经济过程优化设置框架。通过结合技术经济分析和生命周期评估（LCA）指标，早期工艺的设计得到了真正的优化，因为它结合了低成本和低环境后果。该DG研究计划的主要影响将是1。新的技术方法：这项研究将开发新的反应器设计，并设想一种新的方法来处理天然和沼气生产氢气。2.经济：加拿大有3000多口威尔斯，考虑到美国的油井，这个数字还在增加。这项新技术，从来没有研究和优化，以减少燃烧，具有巨大的经济回报潜力。天然气和垃圾填埋气是这项技术的目标。3.环境：消除天然气和垃圾填埋场燃烧将减少全球温室气体排放总量的约1%。 4. HQP的培训和组建：DG计划和我想要研究的技术需要经过培训的HQP来开发和操作这些复杂的流程。废物管理，反应堆设计和操作是未来的挑战之一，这个DG将准备和培训多才多艺的人来解决这些问题。

Canadian central provinces are heavily dependent on fossil fuels production and existing pipelines do not support streaming pure hydrogen due to safety and technical issues. In 2019, Flaring and venting emitted about 6.5 Mton of CO2eq. A solution to this problem should be envisioned. The long term objective of this Discovery Grant (DG) is to develop a small-scale high residence time non-catalytic methane pyrolysis technology aimed at maximising hydrogen and carbon production, and to eliminate flaring, significantly reducing the green house gases emissions of the Canadian oil industry. Part of the hydrogen produced will maintain the extraction battery and generate the heat required for the process. The final reaction produces water, solid carbon, and energy. Currently, no solution is available for this high emitting industry as GtL technologies either co-produce CO2 or do not fully convert solution gas, which must be flared in any case. Also, recent technologies based on molten salts suffer from contamination problems and are characterized by heavy capital expenses (CAPEX). The objectives of this program are: 1. Understand the fundamentals of the non-catalytic pyrolysis reaction. Develop a kinetic model for natural gas pyrolysis, assess the influence of composition and process parameters on hydrogen yield and explore strategies to reduce carbon formation on reactor walls. Also, the boundaries of this research are not limited to natural gas, but also to other sources of energy that today are either burned or do not properly capture associated CO2 such as landfill gas and biogas. 2. Implementation of electrification, namely induction heating, to develop an intensified process which can eventually produce hydrogen for energy or other energy molecules such as methanol 3. Sets the framework for an environmental-technoeconomic process optimization. By coupling techno economic analysis and life cycle assessment (LCA) metrics, the design of an early stage process is truly optimized because it combines low cost and low environmental consequences. The main impacts of this DG research program will be 1. New technological approaches: This research will develop new reactor designs and envisage a new way to treat natural and biogas to produce hydrogen. 2.Economic: In Canada there are more than 3000 oil wells, and this number mounts when considering those in the USA. This new technology, never studied and optimized towards the abatement of flaring, has a huge economic return potential. Natural gas and landfill gas are targets of this technology. 3.Environmental: Gas and landfill flaring elimination will reduce about 1% of the total worldwide GHG emissions. 4. Training and formation of HQPs: The DG program and the technology I aim to study requires trained HQP to develop and operate these complex processes. Waste management, reactor design, and operation are among the future challenges and this DG will prepare and train versatile people to address them.