First campaign of MACBETH HyFo demonstrator finished
- 07/01/2025
The MACBETH demonstrator for the HyFo case was successfully operated for more than 5000 hours in bypass to the 2-PH world scale production plant at the OXENO site in Marl, Germany. During that campaign the reactor was operated by the plant operators. This first run allowed valuable insights into the operation of that new technology in the field (e.g., scale-up, membrane stability, …) triggering already further optimization of the technology.
The first campaign was finished in July 2024 during the yearly revision of the world scale production plant and the catalytic monoliths were discharged from the reactor for further analysis. In the same period the MACBETH demonstration reactor was re-loaded with optimized monoliths from RAUSCHERT replacing the former SiC monoliths.
The reactor is now being operated in a second demonstration campaign that started end of November 2024 and will last till the end of the project. The focus of that campaign is to test the new support material and geometry, some optimized start-up procedures and the refined membrane coating.
