PYRAH2

Pyrolytic Renewable Approach for Hydrogen and Carbon Production: Efficient Transformation of Biogenic Wastes into Hydrogen and High-Value Solid Carbon for New Industrial Value Chains

The PYRAH2 project tackles Europe’s need for sustainable and cost-effective hydrogen and carbon-based products, amid climate change and increasing energy demand. Existing hydrogen production methods — like steam methane reforming, coal gasification, and water electrolysis — depend on fossil fuels or are too costly and energy-intensive, and none recover solid carbon as a valuable coproduct.

PYRAH2 offers an integrated platform that converts biogenic waste and renewable gases into high-purity hydrogen and solid carbon through a four-stage process: autothermal gasification and syngas conditioning, syngas biomethanation, CO2 separation, and plasma-assisted methane pyrolysis. This process transforms diverse organic waste into bioproducts and carbon-negative energy carriers, surpassing current technologies.