Collaboration to develop manufacturing methods of electric microreactors for clean hydrogen production

合作开发用于清洁制氢的电微反应器的制造方法

• 批准号: 563691-2021
• 负责人: Picard, Mathieu
• 金额: $ 3.64万
• 依托单位: Université de Sherbrooke
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=723438
• 关键词: Collaboration; develop; manufacturing; methods; electric

Hydrogen is widely regarded as the fuel of the future, but will eventually need to be entirely produced without carbon emission. Most hydrogen today is produced by catalytic reforming of methane. The heat needed to achieve the reaction is produced through combustion of natural gas, generating large amounts of CO2. Pr. Mathieu Picard and Pr. Luc Fréchette's team at Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS) have developed highly integrated electrically-heated microreactors able to produce net-zero emission hydrogen by replacing gas heating by renewable electricity and favoring carbon-capture in the outlet stream. The reactors are currently being made through powder-bed fusion metal additive manufacturing, taking 8 hours and costing up to 750 C$ per reactors, but they must be manufactured at an industrial scale with faster and more reliable manufacturing methods. Diffusion bonding has the potential of enabling a more consistent production of up to 75 reactors per day while reducing the cost of each individual unit down to 100 C$. The goal of the partnership with the Günter Khöler Institute for Joining Technology and Materials Testing (ifw Jena) from Germany, an application-oriented research center with vast expertise on advanced manufacturing, is to achieve a proof-of-concept for a diffusion bonded, electrically heated steam methane reforming (SMR) reactor and build a strong and lasting relationship with the German research center. The main potential impact of this work is to enable a reliable manufacturing process for the UdeS microreactors, a crucial step towards the production of hydrogen through renewable energy with net zero emission.Canada and Germany signed an agreement to team up on green energy innovation and trade, with a focus on the development of green hydrogen from hydroelectric power for export to Germany, stemming from both countries' goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Additionally to its environmental benefits, hydrogen also presents itself as a great economic opportunity, since the sector is estimated at C$ 50 billions and could create up to 350 000 jobs.

氢被广泛认为是未来的燃料，但最终需要完全在不排放碳的情况下生产，目前大多数氢是通过甲烷的催化重整产生的，实现反应所需的热量是通过天然气燃烧产生的。舍布鲁克大学 (UdeS) 的 Mathieu Picard 教授和 Luc Fréchette 教授的团队开发了高度集成的电加热微反应器，能够产生净零排放的氢气。用可再生电力取代气体加热，并有利于出口流中的碳捕获。目前，这些反应器是通过粉末床熔融金属增材制造制造的，每个反应器需要 8 小时，成本高达 750 加元，但必须在采用更快、更可靠的制造方法的工业规模有可能每天生产多达 75 个反应器，同时将每个单元的成本降低至 100 加元。来自德国的君特·科勒连接技术和材料测试研究所 (ifw Jena) 是一个以应用为导向的研究中心，拥有先进制造方面的丰富专业知识，旨在实现扩散键合、电加热蒸汽甲烷重整的概念验证（ SMR）反应器并与德国研究中心建立了牢固而持久的关系这项工作的主要潜在影响是为 UdeS 微反应器提供可靠的制造工艺，这是通过可再生能源生产氢气的关键一步。净零排放的能源。加拿大和德国签署了一项绿色能源创新和贸易合作协议，重点是开发水力发电的绿色氢并出口到德国，源于两国实现净零排放的目标到 2050 年，氢能除了具有环境效益外，还带来了巨大的经济机遇，因为该行业的产值估计为 500 亿加元，可创造多达 35 万个就业机会。