It is of interest to develop and demonstrate, at prototype scale, low-cost catalysts and integrated reactors that can deliver hydrogen at a high rate per volume from LOHC dehydrogenation at relatively low temperatures and high conversion, so that zero-carbon pure hydrogen can be transported at long distances.

The proposal should contain:

• Development of catalyst (CRMs free catalyst or reducing of CRM use should be considered) for the LOHC dehydrogenation at lower temperature compared to the state of the art:
• ensuring the highest possible dehydrogenation reaction conversion (>95%);
• improving the overall thermal efficiency of the LOHC dehydrogenation step;
• providing high reliability, ease of operation, and cost-effectiveness to hydrogen production;
• an integrated system with high reliability, ease of operation, low materials degradation and cost-effectiveness to hydrogen production from LOHC.
• A fully CO2-free dehydrogenation process;
• A demonstration system, running for at least 500 hours and producing at least 10 kg H2/day at atmospheric pressure;
• Demonstration of the absence of contaminants, by-products and degradation products from the dehydrogenation of LOHC in real conditions (hydrogen quality according to ISO 14687:2019);
• Demonstration of scalability of the developed system to large-scale production (equivalent to the 100 t H2/day) for long distance transportation;
• A Life Cycle Assessment of the developed system in the frame of the whole supply chain: LOHC inventory and make-up, (de)hydrogenation steps, temporary storage, shipping, CRM net consumption, etc;
• Techno-economic analysis for the scalability of the developed system to large-scale production for long distance transportation, i.e. 1000 t H2/day, including centralised hydrogenation plant, storage, shipping and distributed dehydrogenation plants.