With the increasing uptake of hydrogen as an energy carrier for the transport sector, making hydrogen available is becoming an underpinning issue. One way around the building of expensive pipe infrastructure while it would not be fully utilized is to relay on the existing natural gas grid.

For this, the FCH JU has signed HyGrid (call 2015), a project that aims to develop a novel hybrid separation system based in a combination of three purification technologies (membrane, electrochemical and temperature swing adsorption separation) to allow the extraction of hydrogen pre-injected in the natural gas in a cheap and low energy consuming way. The project will build a small (25kg/day) prototype and test it at relevant industrial conditions, producing ISO 14687 quality hydrogen compatible with both transport and stationary applications.

Read more about the HyGrid project here