Methane-pyrolysis process leverages natural gas for CO2-free H2 generation
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By Scott Jenkins |
April 1, 2021
Engineering design of a demonstration plant is underway for a process that pyrolyzes natural gas into hydrogen and solid carbon. The process was developed by C-Zero Inc. (Goleta, Calif.; www.czero.energy), a company set up in 2018 to develop and commercialize methane pyrolysis (thermal decomposition without combustion), a process known for decades and investigated recently at the University of California-Santa Barbara (www.ucsb.edu) using high-temperature molten metal and molten salt catalysts. Construction of the plant is slated to begin by the end of 2021.