The “BioH2Ref” project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, successfully completes on December 31, 2024, the BtX energy GmbH announced.
In this project, together with the sister company e-flox GmbH, the Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, support from the sister project of the Technical University of Munich and the Schleupen family from Lefkeshof in Krefeld, project has made a technology that is unique in the world socially acceptable: hydrogen directly from the farm, clean and environmentally friendly like organic milk from the farm shop. In April, the project received the first valid certificate for green hydrogen on the fuel market in all of Germany, and to round things off, there was a surprise from Santa Claus: hydrogen 5.0, which can be filled between the fermenter and the stable without contamination.
Three hard but successful years of the project are coming to an end, with an early Christmas present in the form of an A4 sheet of technical data. In the last year of the project, project achieved and exceeded all of its goals in week and night shifts. Like any research facility, the plant had the usual start-up difficulties. Parameter studies and different control scenarios on the test bench, with scientific support, led to an increase in the plant efficiency from 45 to 60% and the achievable nominal output from 70 to over 110%. The purity of the hydrogen according to DIN 17124 for fuel cell vehicles has already been confirmed several times, but one thing was still pending until the end: the technical purity of 99.999%, known in technical jargon as 5.0 – the measure of value on the technical gases market.
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Press release https://tinyurl.com/2x3utyjp
