As a student team, SOLID always drives to develop groundbreaking and new technologies. Iron-based Hydrogen Storage is a long term project, which the team has compartmentalised into a roadmap for guidance during development. The work started back in 2021, and has now been underway for three years.
After completion of large scale iron-combustion projects, the team decided it was time to start on a new technology, with only one paper to support them.
Having researched the topic of IRHYS and partners to support them, the first official project on IRHYS started in 2022, called the Steam Iron Project, in which a proof-of-concept oxidation system had to be realised.
Besides technical development, the team also started on business case studies, to ensure that the groundworks for the IRHYS-ecosystem were put into place.
After more than a year, two teams and loads of hard work, SOLID presented the Steam Iron Reactor 1 in the summer of 2023, a proof-of-concept system capable of releasing one kilogram of hydrogen from steaming iron.
In order to fully test the IRHYS-cycle, the 2023/24 team implemented a reduction inlet into the SIR1, showcasing the full potential of IRHYS.
After the completion of the SIR1, the next goal is to design a fully optimised, more efficient and larger SIR2.
In order to ensure that the ecosystem behind IRHYS is legally correct, safe and easy to use, a logistical case study will be done to find out, and solve all challenges surrounding IRHYS.
The entire containerised SIR2 system is expected to be finished in 2027, after which the team will start testing the system on durability and efficiency in order to optimize it.
Once completed, the SIR2 will tour through the Dutch value chain as to showcase the potential of the IRHYS technology.
Now that IRHYS has been thoroughly tested and showcased to the industry, development takes off and by the mid ’30s, the usage of IRHYS is standard in the national energy mix
As the Dutch industry transitions into a green, hydrogen and IRHYS based economy, Germany and Belgium quickly follow up, further integrating and decarbonizing the industry.
The technology takes to the world stage. Full integration on a global scale.
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“Developing the ecosystem for the Iron-based Hydrogen Storage technology”
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