Pure, separated hydrogen from shift processes

PuSH – Pure, separated hydrogen from shift processesHere, I plan to exploit recent innovations made in my ERC Advanced Grant, SPeED, on the cyclic operation (or chemical looping) of chemical reactors to deliver transformational processes for chemical conversions relevant to the energy sector.

We have recently shown (Nature Chemistry, 11, pages 638–643 (2019), video at http://nuvision.ncl.ac.uk/Play/18143) that a chemical looping reactor can produce pure, separated streams of carbon dioxide and hydrogen for a water-gas shift process (a key chemical process in hydrogen production) if and only if a non-stoichiometric oxide is used as the oxygen carrier material (OCM).

Such new chemical looping processes have the potential to be a transformational development for the chemical industry and associated energy technologies because of the inherent carbon dioxide capture.