Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

The project Me2H2 aims at the development of processes for a climate-friendly production of hydrogen with minimal power consumption. Water electrolysis is the benchmark for future H2 production without direct CO2 emissions. If operated with renewable electricity, H2 generation would also be climate-friendly with regard to upstream electricity generation. However, water electrolysis specifically consumes significantly more energy than today's industrial benchmark - the steam reforming of natural gas.

The project team analyses how emissions from steel production can be feasibly deployed.
Steel mill gases created during steel production make a major contribution to the unpopular CO2 emissions. The project involving researchers at RUB aims to help use them in a sensible way. The plan by the 17 partners in the project “Carbon2Chem” is to acquire valuable basic substances for the chemical industry from steel mill gases. This shall be achieved by adding hydrogen to catalytic processes. The necessary hydrogen will be produced by electrolysis, while the electricity for electrolysis comes from renewable energies.