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We were very pleased to welcome our French and German colleagues to discuss the latest developments in the ANR HADES project (Hydrogen from the decomposition of ammonia for energy storage).

The German and French partners involved in the HADES project are committed to paving the way for the future commercialization of green hydrogen produced by the decomposition of ammonia by developing an efficient, cost-effective, and CO2-free technology based on a planar reactor. HADES aims to enable the electrocatalytic cracking of ammonia in a single step, as well as the compression and purification of hydrogen using renewable electricity, through a proton-conducting ceramic electrochemical reactor.

The main outcome of the HADES project will be a laboratory-scale validated reactor for the production of compressed renewable hydrogen from ammonia cracking. By providing this additional hydrogen supply pathway, HADES technology can accelerate the deployment of the hydrogen economy in Europe.

The HADES consortium consists of three German partners and five French partners, with a local coordinator in each country and work package leaders divided equally between the two countries: Pascal BRIOIS (FEMTO) and Julian DAILLY (eifer).

Partner laboratories:

• FEMTO-ST Franche-Comté Institute of Electronics, Mechanics, Thermal Science, and Optics: Science and Technology
• IMN Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel
• IC2MP Institute of Environmental and Materials Chemistry in Poitiers
• ICGM Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier
• EDF SEQUOIA-GRETS (E7H)
• European Institute for Energy Research (EDF-KIT EWIV) Research Institution
• DLR Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und raumfahrt
• KIT-ITCP Karlsruhe Institute of Technology