The Association for the Decarbonization of Industry with representatives from industry, energy supply, the financial sector and research adopted a joint strategy on 20 June 22 with the aim of developing quickly implementable and holistic approaches forCO2 reduction in the industrial environment.
The focus is on high-temperature processes and logistics. Hydrogen is to play a central role in both cases, albeit with different production processes.
In order to decarbonize industrial high-temperature processes, the third largest energy consumer in Switzerland, a new type of hydrogen production process based on the separation of hydrogen from methane (CH4) - known as methane pyrolysis - is to be used in a planned demonstration plant in Zug. Methane is the main component of fossil natural gas and biogas, but can also be produced synthetically from renewably generated hydrogen andCO2. In the planned demonstrator in the Tech Cluster Zug, pyrolytically produced hydrogen will replace fossil natural gas in V-Zug's enameling furnaces.
