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The “CataLite^® Reformers for Ammonia Cracking” white paper is the first in a series of white papers to be released by Catator.

“We’ve spent several decades perfecting the art of catalysis and we want our customers and stakeholders to gain a deeper understanding of the value-added processes we offer. We chose to start our series of white papers with ammonia cracking, as we see it as a highly promising hydrogen carrier to drive the energy transition. We hope you enjoy it,” says Tarras Delin MD at Catator.

The white paper explores the benefits of ammonia in the green hydrogen economy and provides insights into the CataLite^® and CataRex^®-technologies. It offers detailed information on our latest work in catalyst development and reactors concepts and explores the main application areas for ammonia cracking.

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Catator is supporting the project with development and supply of a tar reforming catalyst and an anode off gas burner from the SOFC-system. The initial results from the mesh-based tar reforming catalyst shows that Catator reach over 99% conversion of the tars in the syngas from the gasification of the biomass.

In 2019, energy consumption of households amounted to 26.3% of the final EU energy consumption and 16.9% of the gross EU inland energy consumption [source: Eurostat]. Hence, for a deep decarbonisation of the energy supply of households the substitution of fossil fuel-based systems by RES-heating systems (Renewable Energy Sources) and the promotion of RES for electricity production is strongly demanded. The latter, since grid electricity production in the EU still significantly relies on fossil energy sources (38% of the electricity production in 2019 according to Eurostat). To cover both approaches, the application of combined heat and power production based on RES on the household/multifamily house level, so called micro-scale CHP, is meaningful.

Read more about the project here.

Project partners: 

• BiOS Bioenergiesysteme GMBH
• Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systemes IKTS
• Hysytech SRL
• Catator AB
• Wuppertal Intitut Für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GMBH
• Inergio Technologies SA

The project is Funded by the European Union under grant agreement no. 101083409 (Horizon).