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EUBCE 2024 - Veronica GUBIN - High-purity Hydrogen from Woody Biomass: A Decentralized Production Plant in the Relevant Environment

High-purity Hydrogen from Woody Biomass: A Decentralized Production Plant in the Relevant Environment

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Synthetic fuels from biomass and hydrogen

High-purity Hydrogen from Woody Biomass: A Decentralized Production Plant in the Relevant Environment

Short Introductive summary

A whole value chain for decentralized high-purity hydrogen production from woody biomass and on-site utilization in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell tractor was developed. Therefore, a 100 kWH2 demonstration plant, the so-called BioH2Modul, and a fuel cell tractor, the so-called FCTRAC, were built and will be operated in Carinthia (Austria) in 2024. Within the hydrogen production process, wood chips are converted by downdraft fixed-bed gasification into a product gas, which is then conditioned, cleaned, and purified. The obtained hydrogen shall meet the hydrogen quality according to the standard ISO14687:2019. The process has already been investigated in lab-scale at TU Wien. Those accompanying test runs in lab-scale proved the technical feasibility of the process and the hydrogen purity was found to be higher than 99.97 vol.-%.

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Veronica GUBIN

TU Wien, AUSTRIA

Presenter's biography

I am PhD student at the Institute of Chemical, Environmental & Bioscience Engineering at TU Wien. I have been focusing on high-purity H2 production from biomass-derived gases & have contributed to the development of a H2 production plant (BioH2Modul).

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Co-authors:

V. Gubin, TU Wien, Vienna, AUSTRIA
T. Hejze, Glock Technology GmbH, Ferlach, AUSTRIA
T. Reichmann, Glock Technology GmbH, Ferlach, AUSTRIA
H. Hofbauer, TU Wien, Vienna, AUSTRIA
S. Müller, TU Wien, Vienna, AUSTRIA

Session reference: 5BV.6.15