GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should address the following:

• Improve the operational parameters of the reactor processing wastes beyond the current state of the art;
• Optimisation of the processing of wastes to maximise the process parameters and the hydrogen yield;
• Adapt and validate the technology for a wide acceptance range of wastes, including at high moisture content (up to 50%) and calorific values (from 2 to 5 kWh/kg of waste);
• Increase of the overall efficiency of the processing reactors and units, maintaining use of waste heat and gas streams as well as integrating other renewable resources e.g., of solar energy for the wastes drying or reactor preheating;
• Increase the overall plant efficiency beyond the present state-of–the-art, as indicated in the previous section;
• Optimise the mass and energy balance of the process including all the products streams – e.g., hydrogen, other coproducts and the internal thermal and electric energy consumption;
• Perform plant multi objective optimisation, dynamic modelling to reach a final optimised design and to identify the process parameters for the demo control and safety strategies;
• Development gas separation and purification units delivering the hydrogen at a minimum purity level of 99.9%, in any case adapted at the end-use application proposed;
• Locate the demo plant in a region with a hydrogen end use identified at least at the scale of the prototype plant;
• Perform a techno-economic analysis with the target of LCOH < 3 €/kgH2 for the scaled up plant;
• Perform an LCA and LCC analysis comparing the specific technology with other hydrogen production solutions, including electrolysis and conversion of the raw biogas, as well as other waste to energy/renewable fuel (e.g. biowaste) pathways including approaches such as direct incineration, biomethane production through anaerobic digestion, bio-fermentation or classical and plasma arc gasification, pyrolysis.