TF2 Hydrogen Technologies for Industry

Technology Field 2 (TF2) focuses on supporting and enabling the creation and deployment of clean and innovative technologies in different industrial end-use sectors replacing carbon-based technologies with renewable and low-carbon hydrogen technologies. These end-use sectors are: ammonia, metals, chemical, food, e[1]fuels and refineries, and cement and glass.

The activities planned in TF 2 aim to contribute to the following overarching objectives, during both the R&D&I and FID phases, which are common to all sectors concerned.

For R&D&I:

  • Developing technologies to ensure safe and reliable use and operation of electrolysers and feed-in of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen;
  • Developing, implementing and applying a cost-efficient electricity procurement strategy;
  • Reducing the specific power consumption of the electrolysis and increasing the lifetime of the stack; and
  • Reducing the related CO2 emissions, due to the fact that the products of the hydrogen-based plants are expected to have better material properties (e.g. chemical and physical properties) compared to the current state-of-the-art.

For FID:

  • Developing CO2 emission-free productions under thermodynamic and kinetic process parameters that do not affect the material properties of the products; and
  • Scaling up the different technology and processes from pilot to industrial scale, thereby facilitating the use of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen.

Under TF2 the following projects are taking place: