H2Tech - Q1 2022 - 5

TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT
H2 PRODUCTION
ZoneFlow catalyst to increase
effi ciency of SMR
Microwave reactor technology
for renewable H2
production
may be used in Hyzon's
heavy-duty vehicle
Hyzon Motors Inc. signed a nonbinding
Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with Transform Materials, a
provider of renewable H2
through
its proprietary microwave reactor
technology. Hyzon and Transform
Materials will evaluate proposals to
develop facilities to produce low-tonegative
carbon intensity H2
from
various forms of methane, prioritizing
biogas and renewable natural gas.
Through Transform Material's
proprietary technology, these facilities
(acting as hubs) can be built to produce
H2
Honeywell and ZoneFlow Reactor
Technologies (ZRFT) unveiled a joint
agreement to commercialize ZoneFlow
Reactor technology. This technology
promises to provide a step-change
improvement in the efficiency and
carbon intensity of steam methane
reforming (SMR) to produce H2
coupled with Honeywell H2
carbon capture for H2
. When
Solutions'
production, the
ZoneFlow technology will make lowcarbon
H2
production more efficient and
less expensive.
The ZoneFlow Reactor, a structured
catalyst module that replaces
conventional catalyst pellets in SMR
tubes, provides far superior heat transfer
and pressure drop performance. UOP
and ZFRT will cooperate in conducting
reactive testing in ZFRT's large-scale
pilot plant at Université Catholique de
Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
The reactive testing will validate the
expected 15% increase in throughput
vs. conventional catalyst pellet systems.
Results from the pilot plant testing are
expected to be available by mid-2022.
According to UOP, ZoneFlow Reactor
technology is a major breakthrough
in SMR. The much higher throughput
possible with the ZoneFlow Reactors
will mean significant capital savings for
new SMR plants and higher productivity
for existing plants. The additional
opportunity to reduce the steam
requirements to the SMR process will
reduce its energy demands and overall
impact on the plant's carbon dioxide
(CO2
) emissions.
efficiently-even at small scales
of 1 tpd-5 tpd-offering modular
construction that allows capacity to
grow as customer demand increases.
Transform's technology to be employed
in these projects produces H2
as a
co-product with acetylene, providing
significantly advantaged H2
cost
structures.
Pursuant to the MoU, Hyzon
and Transform will seek to align H2
production with the accelerating
demand created by Hyzon's heavy-duty
vehicles. Hubs would be located and
sized to fulfill existing and potential
customer needs, leading to high
utilization by Hyzon's back-to-base
vehicle deployments. Transform
Materials' clean plasma technology can
convert methane into H2
and acetylene
without the CO2 emissions that result
and acetylene. Utilizing this flexible,
readily available feedstock without
emitting CO2
from traditional processes for generating
H2
results in low-to-negative
carbon intensity H2 for powering Hyzon's
zero-emissions vehicles.
World's fi rst carbon
removal plant converting
wood waste to H2
S. SHARMA, Technical Editor
Climate technology innovator Mote
revealed that it is establishing its first
facility to convert wood waste into
H2
fuel, while capturing, utilizing and
sequestering CO2 emissions resulting
from the process.
It is estimated that more than 500
MMtpy of wood and agricultural waste
are generated in the U.S., which is either
disposed of via natural decay, landfills or
open-air burn, all of which return carbon
to the atmosphere. With the engineering
work of their first facility underway,
Mote expects to produce approximately
7 MMkg/yr of carbon-negative H2
and
remove 150,000 tpy of CO2 from the air.
This is equivalent to removing 32,622
cars off the road. Mote expects to start
H2
production as soon as 2024.
As the world's first carbon removal
project converting biomass to H2
,
Mote is addressing the ever-growing
demand for renewable H2
from the atmosphere with the
with a carbonnegative
approach. Mote's technology
directly supports California in its
carbon-neutrality goals by removing
CO2
company's wood waste conversion
process. With this new facility, Mote
is laying the groundwork for affordable
H2
offerings on a global scale, while
also supercharging natural carbon
removal processes.
Mote's proprietary integration of
proven equipment in a novel process
establishes this ground-breaking
carbon removal and clean energy
generation facility. Mote utilizes wood
waste from farms, forestry and other
resources, where it would otherwise
be open-air burned for disposal, left
to decompose or sent to a landfill.
Through gasification and subsequent
treatment processes, the remaining
CO2
is extracted and permanently
placed deep underground for
ecologically safe storage.
Mote is also in discussions with
carbon utilization company CarbonCure
Technologies on the potential of
permanently storing its CO2
in concrete
via CarbonCure's carbon removal
technologies, deployed in hundreds
of CO2
concrete plants worldwide. Through
this biomass-to-H2
mineralization systems at
process, Mote
contributes to reversing climate change
through the functional removal of
carbon from the air and putting it deep
underground or permanently storing
it in concrete at construction sites.
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