📋 Tender Overview
HYVALUE is a small-scale innovative project to produce 1,600 ton per year of hydrogen ready to be used by carbon intensive industries and the mobility sector. The material inlet for HYVALUE will be 12,000 ton per year of discarded Municipality Solid Waste (MSW), otherwise destined to landfill. HYVALUE allocates two simultaneous approaches for GHG emissions reduction; one is hydrogen production and the second one is MSW landfill reduction. The project integrates well known process units in an innovative, product-oriented design, to make hydrogen production material, energy and financially more efficient. This technical solution represents a big step forward to end the current linear economy model, paving the way for the circular economy framework. Hydrogen applications extend further than industrial and domestic energy (heat) source (injected in the natural gas network), as its can be extended to vehicles and logistics services such as vessels, cargo-trains, and airplanes in the medium term, with the benefits of the higher fuel efficiency of the hydrogen fuel cells. This HYVALUE installation will be located in Vitoria, where the increase in clean hydrogen market availability will benefit the local industries (the metal sector especially) and contribute to their transition to a low carbon operation mode, create new green jobs, and boost hydrogen related R&D at international level. Cost competitive hydrogen availability will help the local institutions in promoting hydrogen use in high value-added applications such as movility and, additionally, facilitate the achievement of EU policies and objectives related to decarbonisation and landfill reduction through waste valorization. The project will be coordinated by TUBACEX and NOVARGI which will use its proprietary technology for the design and construction of the installation. A cost efficiency ratio of 32,06 has been estimated and a 36% Return of Investment for the HYVALUE project.
