The PtX Plasma Development Center as part of the “Forschungsfabrik Wasserstoff MV” is researching the development and testing of plasmalysis processes.

Plasma requires less electrical energy to split methane into hydrogen and carbon than is needed to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in electrolysis.

Plasmalysis therefore represents a promising alternative and key technology for producing low-emission hydrogen economically and significantly increasing its yield while reducing the use of renewable energies. This should contribute to the energy transition and at the same time open up new value creation opportunities in the region. The focus is currently on the production of low-emission hydrogen and carbon from methane and biomethane.

Together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Large Structures in Production Engineering (IGP, Rostock) and the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT, Rostock), the INP is thus playing a pioneering role in the development of cost-effective and efficient hydrogen technologies within the “Forschungsfabrik Wasserstoff MV”. The overarching objective of the Forschungsfabrik is to develop new technologies in the field of renewable energies and alternative energy sources and to demonstrate their efficient application in practice.

Funding is provided by the Ministry of Economics, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labor of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Co-financed by the European Union