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SUMMARY:Hydrogen Technologies and Synthetic Fuels - From the Lab to the Ma
 rket
DTSTART:20171214T103000
DTEND:20171214T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Noris Gallandat\nLaboratory for Materials in Renewable Ene
 rgy\nEPFL Valais/Wallis\nChE-605 - Highlights in Energy Research seminar s
 eries\nTwo examples of pilot plants for the production of synthetic hydroc
 arbons are presented. First\, the design and build of a demonstrator for t
 he conversion of solar energy to synthetic hydrocarbons is presented. The 
 average power of the installation is set to 2 kW\, which corresponds to th
 e global energy consumption of a single person.\n\nThe main components of 
 the system are photovoltaic cells\, batteries\, an electrolyser\, a metal 
 hydride storage and compression system\, a CO2 capture unit and chemical r
 eactors. The installation allows studying the energy flows and reservoirs 
 and the interaction between different components\, comparing the performan
 ce of competing technologies and establishing an energetic and economic da
 tabase from the real world. Further\, the operating parameters such as pre
 ssure\, temperatures and energy flows are recorded at different locations 
 to enable for system modeling and advanced optimization techniques to be a
 pplied on real data. The second pilot plant aims at improving the overall 
 energetic efficiency of gas metering and regulating stations positioned as
  interface between the transmission (50-70 bar) and distribution (5 bar) g
 rids.\n\nThe goal of this project is to combine the use of renewable waste
  heat with the production of synthetic methane in order to partially repla
 ce the conventionally used natural gas boiler. Waste heat from the electro
 lyser and the chemical reactor is recovered to pre-warm the incoming strea
 m of natural gas prior to the expansion. The proposed system not only prev
 ents the consumption of natural gas\, but instead produces synthetic\, ren
 ewable methane. Finally\, the fundraising\, founding and development of a 
 tech startup (GRZ Technologies Ltd.) aiming at commercializing some of the
  technologies mentioned above will be presented.\n \nReferences:\n[1] N. 
 Gallandat\, J. Bérard\, F. Abbet\, and A. Züttel\, “Small-scale demons
 tration of the conversion of renewable energy to synthetic hydrocarbons\,
 ” Sustain. Energy Fuels\, 2017.\n 
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