TITAN, Biogas pyrolysis to green H2

TITAN will develop and validate at TRL5 the direct conversion of biogas (CO2 containing rich-CH4 feedstock) into valuable carbon materials and a H2 rich stream thanks to MicroWave (MW) Technology heated reactors. It will also consider further valorisation to power, chemicals and fuels. TITAN has the potential to produce 0.6 Mt of green H2 in 2030 to almost 4Mt per year from 2045 on, corresponding to the saving of 237 Mt CO2 by 2045. Titan will develop a Microwave heated fluidised catalytic reactor allowing high CH4 conversion in a single pass thanks due to direct catalyst heating and the avoidance of energy intensive gas separation will make the whole process energy positive, produce H2 and/or power at competitive cost while sequestrating Carbon leading to negative GHG emissions. Based on circular economy concepts, the valorisation of the Carbon materials will be studied for two applications: 1/ soil amendment to enhance agriculture soil properties and 2/ production of SiC materials. The long-term storage of the carbon species and their microbiological impact when released into soils will be studied. The scalability of the proposed MW heated reactor technology, together with a smart downstream process, will lead to low CAPEX that shall allow the deployment of small, delocalised biogas to power units as well as large biogas to H2 and or chemicals/fuels units in Europe. Partners : CNRS (Coord.), Microwave Tech. Consulting, Process Desing Center, Warsaw Tech. Uni., Hohenheim Uni., European Biogas Asso., ESD.