The HyPER Demonstrator
This demonstrator can produce hundreds of kg of H2 per day. It is a megawatt scale pilot facility that utilises sorbent enhanced reforming to generate clean H2.
How can it help businesses?
This pilot scale facility can be used by businesses as a test bed for their equipment either integrated into or around the facility. We actively encourage businesses to implement their technology with our equipment so that mutually beneficial research can be achieved.
This could be of use to any business developing anything from H2/CO2 leak detection, gas analysis, pipe fittings/ gaskets, non-destructive testing and evaluation of metals/pipes, new instrumentation, new metal alloys, gas compressors, gas purification systems, and more. Furthermore, we welcome engagement from businesses interested
in scaling up and installing clean H2 production facilities at their sites.
What’s on offer?
All the above uses of the facility plus tours, technical advice, use of the demonstrator, integration of new equipment and demonstration of component parts.
Contact for HyPER
Dr Peter Clough
Senior Lecturer in Energy Engineering
Centre for Renewable and Low Carbon Energy
Cranfield University
Telephone: +44 (0)1234 754873
Email: p.t.clough@cranfield.ac.uk
Find out more on the HyPER website
The Turquoise Hydrogen Demonstrator
By spring of 2023, the turquoise hydrogen production pilot demonstrator will be in operation. This demonstrator consists of a central upright fixed fluidised bed reactor which generates hydrogen from methane, with built in mechanisms for heating and heat recovery. In the reactor, methane molecules are split into their constituents, H2 and carbon. This pilot reactor will have in-built system to separate gaseous H2 and remove the solid carbon, with a
projected minimum hydrogen output of ~ 6 kg/ day. In order to reduce the cost of hydrogen (per kg), we currently exploit the by-product solid carbon in batteries, water and air purification, soil-based crop enhancement products, magnetic applications.
How can it help businesses?
The pilot reactor will be made available as a test bed for production of low carbon hydrogen. This will be particularly beneficial to businesses that use carbon as feedstocks, for example manufacturing and product development for
batteries, supercapacitors, water purification, air purification, electronics, ink formulations.
What’s on offer?
We can offer all above, tours, technical advice and use of the demonstrator as a test bed.
Contact for the Turquoise Hydrogen Demonstrator
Professor Upul Wijayantha
Professor and Head of Centre
Centre for Renewable and Low Carbon Energy
Cranfield University
Telephone: +44 (0)1234 752955
Email: upul.wijayantha@cranfield.ac.uk
