Technology Field 2 – 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. 

  1. 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. 
  1. 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: