Carbon Dioxide-Free Hydrogen and Solid Carbon from Natural Gas via Metal Salt Intermediates

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Program:
OPEN 2018
Award:
$3,690,304
Location:
Baltimore, Maryland
Status:
ALUMNI
Project Term:
06/28/2019 - 12/27/2023

Technology Description:

Johns Hopkins will scale up a novel process to convert natural gas into hydrogen and solid carbon with no water input while reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Leveraging industrial partners Southern Company and Cabot Corporation, the team will scale up its cyclic process based on early laboratory demonstration. ETCH, INC, is commercializing the process, which is expected to produce H2 from NG at costs comparable to the state-of-the art commercial technologies, while lowering energy input, reducing CO2 emissions, and producing high-value pure carbon materials.


Potential Impact:

Johns Hopkins proposes rapid development of a radical new method to produce H2 and solid carbon from NG.

Security:

The U.S. transportation sector depends on petroleum for its energy. Increasing the diversity of energy-dense liquid fuels would bolster energy security.

Environment:

The new technology would reduce or eliminate roughly 100 million metric tons of CO2 emissions from current H2 production.

Economy:

This technology would expand the H2 market and spur the identification and use of new high-value solid carbon materials.

Contact

ARPA-E Program Director:
Dr. Jack Lewnard
Project Contact:
Jonah Erlebacher
Press and General Inquiries Email:
ARPA-E-Comms@hq.doe.gov
Project Contact Email:
Jonah.Erlebacher@jhu.edu

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Release Date:
12/13/2017