Tecnicas Reunidas participates in a research project for the use of green hydrogen for the decarbonisation of the Spanish intensive industry

Tecnicas Reunidas participates in a research project for the use of green hydrogen for the decarbonisation of the Spanish intensive industry

The HY2DEC project will research new technologies for the production and use of green hydrogen to contribute to the decarbonization of the Spanish intensive industry.

The project will be developed by a consortium led by Tubacex with the participation of six other Spanish companies, TORRECID S.A., TECNICAS REUNIDAS S.A., GHI HORNOS INDUSTRIALES S.L., GECSA CONDUCTORES Y CONEXIONES ESPECIALES S.A., ORCHESTRA SCIENTIFIC S.L., and KERIONICS S.L.

The project has the contribution of 7 research organizations CEIT, ICIQ, ICP (CSIC), IKERLAN, INCAR (CSIC), ITQ (CSIC) and TECNALIA.

HY2DEC has been incorporated into the Missions Program of the Center for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) having obtained the third highest score in the last edition of the program.

Context

Climate change is having a growing impact on our planet and its mitigation is an increasingly urgent challenge. It is necessary to carry out a gradual decarbonization of all sectors of the economy that will lead to achieve the objectives set by the European Commission of emission neutrality in 2050.

In this context, the research project led by Tubacex entitled 'Research of new technologies for the production and use of green hydrogen for the decarbonization of the Spanish intensive industry' with acronym HY2DEC is born.

Tubacex as a strategic supplier of advanced products and industrial services for power generation and mobility, leads within the framework of its open and sustainable innovation strategy, the business group that develops the R&D project Hy2DEC, whose main objective is to research, develop and validate new emerging technologies for the production and use of hydrogen and green oxygen, as well as CO2 capture and its integration in processes of the Spanish intensive industry with the purpose of advancing in its decarbonization.

This project will be developed by a consortium of 7 Spanish companies. ACERIA DE ALAVA S.A., (Tubacex Group), TORRECID S.A., TECNICAS REUNIDAS S.A., GHI HORNOS INDUSTRIALES S.L., GECSA CONDUCTORES Y CONEXIONES ESPECIALES S.A., ORCHESTRA SCIENTIFIC S.L. y KERIONICS S.L.

Project

The cooperative business R&D project entitled 'Research on new technologies for the production and use of green hydrogen for the decarbonization of the Spanish intensive industry' and with the acronym 'HY2DEC', has been subsidized by the Center for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI) and supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation within the 2022 call of the Science and Innovation Missions program.

It is worth mentioning that this project within the framework of the Missions Program has obtained the third best qualification -ex aequo with the second one- among all the projects presented in this call of the program.

The Hy2DEC project aims to respond to the challenges involved in the decarbonization of the intensive industry through a sustainable production and use of hydrogen and green oxygen and a CO2 capture that closes the positive balance of emissions. For this purpose, and in parallel to the experimental research, Hy2DEC will carry out a study of the gaps and needs of the intensive industry processes to advance in their decarbonization and an evaluation of potential solutions to be provided by the technologies under study, all this in the context of two use cases of intensive processes such as steel and ceramics.

The technologies that will be the object of research in this project can be grouped into three main axes: On the one hand, Hy2DEC will advance the knowledge and implementation of two emerging technologies in the field of green hydrogen production by electrochemical means.

The second pillar focuses on the research of new designs and heat generation devices that implement the use of green hydrogen as fuel.

The third technological pillar is oriented to the study and implementation of CO2 capture technologies including the valorization of waste from the industry involved and thus contributing to the circular economy.

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