EReTech
Electrified Reactor Technology

EReTech Electrified Reactor Technology

The main objective of the event was to present how to scale up various innovative electrification technologies for the chemical industry to ensure reaching the EU’s climate goals. The event was organised by the e-CODUCT* project, co-organised by EReTech*, ēQATOR*, TITAN and STORMING. Two experts, Franz Hörzenberger (ArcelorMittal) and Walter Vermeiren (Total Energies), gave introductory insights into electrification. This was followed by presentations of the projects, a round table discussion and Q&A from the attendees.
EReTech will devel­op and val­i­date a trans­for­ma­tive elec­tri­cal­ly heat­ed reac­tor togeth­er with the tai­lored cat­a­lyst for steam methane reform­ing.
Based on SYPOX tech­nol­o­gy the reac­tor hosts ceram­ic sup­port­ed struc­tured cat­a­lyst, elec­tri­cal­ly heat­ed by inter­nal direct resis­tive heat­ing ele­ments. This achieves an ener­gy effi­cien­cy close to 95% and a reac­tor vol­ume that is two orders-of-mag­ni­tude small­er.
EReTech final goal is to offer solu­tions for the decen­tral­ized mar­ket and for the decar­boniza­tion of exist­ing or new cen­tral­ized reform­ing plants.

Project Overview

Time­line: June 2022 – Novem­ber 2025 Bud­get: approx­i­mate­ly 9 M€
Part­ners: 6 indus­tri­al part­ners
7 universities/research insti­tu­tions Coor­di­na­tor: Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Munich
EReTech proposes to develop and validate at TRL 6 a transformative electrically heated reactor, together with the tailored catalyst for steam methane reforming, using a 250 kW unit. Based on SYPOX technology the reactor hosts ceramic supported structured catalyst, electrically heated by internal direct contact resistive heating elements. This allows achieving an energy efficiency close to 95%, i.e. nearly twice the value typical for gas-fired heat boxes, and a reactor volume that is two orders-of-magnitude smaller. As designed, the 250 kW reactor integrated with all required peripherals in a reforming skid will be used to produce approximately 400 kg/day of 99.999% pure H2. This is equivalent to the size of a commercially relevant biogas reforming plant for the decentralized production of renewable H2. The targeted design will allow to increase the power via parallelization, while scale-up will be conceptually targeted for larger capacities (>20 MW electrical input). EReTech?s final goal is to offer solutions for the decentralized market and for the decarbonization of existing or new centralized reforming plants.

Eretech Activities

The main objective of the event was to present how to scale up various innovative electrification technologies for the chemical industry to ensure reaching the EU’s climate goals. The event was organised by the e-CODUCT* project, co-organised by EReTech*, ēQATOR*, TITAN and STORMING. Two experts, Franz Hörzenberger (ArcelorMittal) and Walter Vermeiren (Total Energies), gave introductory insights into electrification. This was followed by presentations of the projects, a round table discussion and Q&A from the attendees.
The main objective of the event was to present how to scale up various innovative electrification technologies for the chemical industry to ensure reaching the EU’s climate goals. The event was organised by the e-CODUCT* project, co-organised by EReTech*, ēQATOR*, TITAN and STORMING. Two experts, Franz Hörzenberger (ArcelorMittal) and Walter Vermeiren (Total Energies), gave introductory insights into electrification. This was followed by presentations of the projects, a round table discussion and Q&A from the attendees.

Objective: develop and validate an e‑SMR


Objective: develop and validate an e-SMR DECENTRALIZED CENTRALIZED Biogas into Renewable Hydrogen Low carbon Hydrogen
Objective: develop and validate an e-SMR DECENTRALIZED CENTRALIZED Biogas into Renewable Hydrogen Low carbon Hydrogen

Resistive heating: Reactor technologies

Project Partners

EReTech
Grant agree­ment ID: 101058608
Start date   1 June 2022
End date   30 Novem­ber 2025
EReTech
Elec­tri­fied Reac­tor Tech­nol­o­gy