Ready4H2 held its 5th workshop focusing on natural gas and hydrogen blending and deblending solutions, with a particular interest on latest technologies. As the technical management of blending is relatively well understood and is already being applied in numerous pilot projects by R4H2 members, the workshop covered the less understood technical aspects of “de-blending” and hydrogen purification for specific end-users.
Siemens Energy, DVGW, DBI, DNV, HyET, and H2Site shared the latest developments, and the projects and technical issues they are working on, including different approaches to deblending, the H2 Membrane project - that tests different membrane materials designs and performance, of stability, separating properties, achievable purity, cost and time-to-market - and the H2site’s Palladium Alloy Membrane Technology and its success in numerous pilot projects across Europe, including the production of high purity hydrogen whilst recovering 98% hydrogen from a variety of feedstocks.
The workshop was led by Ready4H2 member Peter Demec from SPPD, who confirmed that: “Deblending H2 from blends with natural gas, with more than 2% H2 is possible: options exist on the market and scale-up solutions are being developed fast. I am excited to see progress made in recent years in deblending/purification technologies with so many live-user cases. The comparative analyses presented at the workshop were highly beneficial.”
A separate workshop will be organised in early 2025 to discuss the commercial aspects and business case of blending for DSOs.
