RENEWABLE FUELS AND SUSTAINABLE GAS

Renewable fuels and sustainable gas play an important part in the energy transition. Hydrogen is possibly the future carrier of energy, with bio-methane gas as a more local player and a possible backup to have a balance. The Northern Netherlands has committed to realizing a hydrogen ecosystem. The region boasts an impressive position in terms of knowledge and expertise in fossil gas and green gas. Entrance’s application-oriented research builds and expands upon this. Entrance has an extensive and relevant network, which proactively helps formulate and realize initiatives for this theme in a cohesive manner.

Entrance’s practice-oriented research focuses on renewable fuels and sustainable gas as energy carriers and raw materials for the future. Hydrogen and bio methane (green gas, Bio-LNG) are important topics in this research. Ammonia, oxygen, as a residual product of electrolysis, and carbon dioxide as a residual product of bio gas production are also included in research. The research on this theme covers in the inter- or multi-disciplinary field of sustainable generation, storage and distribution (large and small-scale), commerce, legislation and policy, knowledge and value dissemination, acceptance, integration, and the use inside the region and outside.

Research questions renewable fuels and sustainable gas

  • How can we develop and optimize value chains from an energetic and economic perspective?
  • Which applications are most important or promising from a sustainable (economic) perspective?
  • (economic) perspective?
  • What is a good combination between industrial usage and local energy demand?
  • How can we define and optimize necessary infrastructure for sustainable implantation?
  • How can we optimize hydrogen production through electrolysis? (experimental, energetic and
  • economic)?
  • How can we optimize biogas production from biomass waste flow?
  • What is the best method of hydrogen conversion?