Towards a circular economy in electroless pore-plated Pd/PSS composite membranes: Pd recovery and porous support reuse

The project (BiowastetoH2) aims to contribute to the decarbonisation of the European energy system by producing green hydrogen from waste streams. This, the main objective of the project is the production of renewable hydrogen from residual streams from biomass pyrolysis by means of autothermal steam reforming integrated in a membrane reactor. Focuses on the development of innovative multifunctional membrane catalytic reactors (CMR) based on new catalysts and selective membranes to improve their performance, durability, cost-effectiveness and sustainability in self-thermal reforming (ATR) to produce pure hydrogen from components of the aqueous fraction of the bio-oil. Finally, a study will be carried out to determine the sustainability of the proposed hydrogen production process through life cycle analysis (LCA) from an environmental, thermo-economic, environmental and social point of view.