Hydrogen Production from Sustainable Synthesis Products

We offer:

• Development and design of innovative reactors and reforming processes for thermochemical hydrogen production from energy sources such as ammonia, methanol, dimethyl ether, biogas, or liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC)
  • Implementation of electrical heating concepts in so-called e-crackers
• In-situ and ex-situ characterization of reforming catalysts to evaluate activity, selectivity, and stability under controlled process conditions
• Evaluation/analysis of various applications for hydrogen-based synthesis products, by means of
  • Construction and 24/7 operation of pilot-scale test environments
  • Precise process simulations of energy consumption, using Aspen and Chemcad software, as well as cost calculations
  • Reactor optimization, using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations
• In-house software development for the acquisition of sensor data in real time and its visualization, as well as customized control algorithms

Your benefits:

• We optimize your thermochemical processes: cost-efficient, sustainable, scalable.
• Our test environments provide you with accurate, reliable, and reproducible results.
• Our characterizations give you a deep understanding of the kinetic and thermodynamic relationships.

We offer comprehensive services in the development and design of innovative reactors and reforming processes for thermochemical hydrogen production. The focus is on hydrogen-based, sustainable synthesis products from power-to-X processes, such as ammonia, methanol or dimethyl ether, but also LOHCs. The design of the catalytic reactors can be supported by flow simulations with Ansys Fluent®. The construction and operation of test plants on a pilot plant scale serves to validate our own prototypes such as e-crackers or new customer concepts. Specific questions on catalyst activity and stability of materials can be addressed for high temperatures and operating pressures. Our research and know-how ensure that you always benefit from the latest technological developments in thermochemical hydrogen production.

CatVap®  Technology:

Fuel-flexible Heating Technology to Reduce Emissions from Combustion Engines

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We eveluate homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts in our highly developed test rigs. We use parallelized high-throughput reactor systems, fixed-bed reactors and batch reactors. State-of-the-art measurement techniques enable us to examine the processes taking place in the reaction down to the last detail. Using fiber optic temperature measurement, we can measure and understand the thermal behavior in the reactor with millimeter precision. At the same time, advanced analytical methods allow us to analyze products locally along the reactor, even in dynamic reforming processes. Based on this data, we carry out detailed catalyst screenings and generate customized kinetic models to precisely describe the reaction behavior. We also use state-of-the-art measurement techniques such as NAP-XPS or µXRF to analyze the processes on the catalyst surface in order to evaluate catalyst stability and understand deactivation mechanisms.

We plan, design, automate and operate test benches to investigate our processes under industrially relevant conditions. Based on our in-depth understanding of the thermodynamics and kinetics of the processes, we are able to implement customized plant designs in a CE-compliant manner. Through the operation of these plants, we collect detailed data for a successful, experimentally validated scale-up.