C&CS research success based on work in the MEMBER and GLAMOUR projects
The production of biogenic hydrogen from locally available biomass in biomass gasification plants is of great interest with regard to the goal of reducing CO2 emissions to 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 and to zero by 2050 (European Green Deal).
To enable more efficient hot gas purification (solving the tar problem) in this manufacturing process, the new nickel-based steam reforming catalyst C&CS #1050 B was developed as a coarse-grained variant of the fluidizable SER catalyst C&CS #1050, patented within the framework of the EU project MEMBER (No. 760944). As initial model gas tests have shown, C&CS #1050 B can be used in catalytic filters for tar reforming in biomass gasification plants. Pilot tests are currently underway in a catalytic filter at the University of Teramo to validate the measured high performance of this catalyst under real gas conditions.
Due to the widespread use of fixed-bed catalysts, C&CS, based on results from the EU project GLAMOUR (No. 884197), additionally developed a tar reforming catalyst in tablet form – C&CS #1250 – and tested it for the first time at the ICB-CSIC institute (https://www.icb.csic.es). The current paper presenting the groundbreaking results by the three authors, Dr. Manfred Nacken, Dr. Isabel Martinez, and Dr. Gemma Grasa, was recently published in the journal gwf Gas + Energie 10-11 2024.
Here is the link to the article “Novel steam reforming catalyst and its applications for energy-efficient hydrogen production, p. 61ff: Online edition of GWF 10-11 2024.
Contact for inquiries:
Dr. Manfred Nacken
Expert for Reforming, Filtration & Separation
C&CS catalysts and chemical specialties GmbH
Phone: +49 8106 23598 93
manfred.nacken@candcs.de
https://www.candcs.de
