The HERMES project advances hydrogen separation and purification technologies through the development, scaling-up, and industrial demonstration at TRL7 of innovative membrane systems, while conducting comprehensive evaluations for safety, environmental impact, social acceptance, and cost reduction in industrial settings. The project aims at developing and scaling up two membrane technologies (Pd-based and Carbon based membranes), to design and build 2 prototypes at TRL7, and to prove the technologies at two industrial sites (in Italy and in Turkey), for separation of pure hydrogen for 5 different streams of industrial interest. The prototypes will allow the separation of hydrogen with energy consumptions well below 3.5 kWh/kg and costs below 1 euro/kg. The project will also evaluate the environmental impact of the processes with detailed LCA analysis. HERMES will also contribute to safety studies of the system and to the public awareness of the technologies. The project counts with 1 University, 2 research institutions and 4 large industries and SMEs.
HERMES will provide a quantum leap in the development of efficient hydrogen separation and purification technology to reduce the cost of hydrogen purification by utilization of two groundbreaking membrane technologies: Palladium based membranes and Carbon Molecular Sieve membranes (CMS).
In particular, HERMES will develop 2 prototypes to be tested in two different industrial locations for the separation of 100 kg/day of pure hydrogen from different industrial streams at both low and high hydrogen contents. In both prototypes both Pd-based and Carbonbased membranes will be tested.
– Designing and setting up a broad and complete network of value chains with world-class universities, research centres and industrial partners to develop the key building blocks for hydrogen purification and separation
– Developing a set of efficient, costeffective, and environmentally friendly membrane technologies that can be easily tailored for the recovery and separation of hydrogen in the industries.
– Deploying the expertise of partners for achieving the maximum impact of the hydrogen separation in terms of TEA, LCC, LCA, PHA (FBK), Membrane development and pilot fabrication (H2SITE, TUE, and TEC), business case definition and exploitation and industrial demonstration (SNAM, and TUPRAS).
Objectives
1- To develop and demonstrate at 100 kgH2/day scale and at TRL7, two prototypes based on advanced membranes for different industrial study cases containing different hydrogen amounts in the stream
2- To offer and demonstrate an operational capacity to regulate the purity of the output flows from a fluctuating concentration in the industrial stream
3- To develop a full TEA, LCA, LCC of HERMES
4- To perform a preliminary safety analysis of all user-cases of the project
5- To develop accelerated protocols to evaluate the lifetime of the membranes developed in HERMES
6- To identify further industrial streams where the technologies developed in HERMES can be replicated
7- To pave the way for future exploitation of HERMES Key Exploitable results
8- To promote the dissemination and communication of HERMES results and enhance networking with key stakeholders
Contact and Further Information
For more details on the HERMES project, potential collaborations, or inquiries,
please contact us at hermes-h2@intract.com.tr or visit our website at https://hermes-h2.eu/
