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Work Plan
Eight interconnected Work Packages
The BHARAT-EU work plan brings together technical, economic, environmental, safety and organisational activities within an integrated framework for the development and demonstration of renewable hydrogen production from biogenic waste.
Project structure
From research to demonstration
The project begins with feedstock assessment and technology development, followed by fundamental modelling, safety planning, and holistic sustainability and techno-economic assessment. These activities converge in the demonstration and validation of renewable hydrogen production at TRL5, supported throughout by project management, data management, communication, dissemination and exploitation activities.
Work Packages
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WP1 Project management and coordination
- Ensure efficient and timely governance.
- Monitor the implementation plan.
- Organize regular progress meetings and review events.
- Manage financial and administrative tasks.
- Protect and valorize Intellectual Property to maximize KERs exploitation.
WP Leader: POLIMI & IITM
WP2 Non-recyclable biogenic feedstock identification, assessment and selection using digital tools
- Identify and assess potential non-recyclable biogenic feedstocks in EU and India.
- Select the most promising ones with respect to regional/local availability and cost.
- Identify suitable plant locations assessing mobilization patterns via digital tools.
WP Leader: DBFZ & SWMS
WP3 Development and optimization of all process steps
- Assess H₂ quality & solid carbon characteristics.
- Set optimum process and operating windows.
WP Leader: CNR & IITM
WP4 Fundamental modeling of the process involved in BHARAT-EU
- Develop scientific knowledge and simulation tools for fundamental modeling of all process blocks.
- Model validation.
- Implement researcher exchanges, including short-term visits and PhD exchanges.
WP Leader: POLIMI & IITM
WP5 Safety of waste to renewable hydrogen production processes
- Create project safety plan.
- Define hazards and associated risks.
- Perform safety engineering to underpin development of innovative safety strategies.
- Design inherently safer H₂ production process.
- Establish and implement cross-national train-the-trainer courses in safety of H₂ production.
WP Leader: UU & AMU
WP6 Holistic assessment of the overall process concept
- Develop a plantwide process model of the integrated BHARAT-EU process.
- Evaluate the technoeconomic feasibility of renewable H₂ production from biogenic waste.
- Address the sustainability and circularity aspects.
- Assess the socioeconomic impacts.
- Compare the BHARAT-EU process concept to state-of-the-art renewable and fossil-based hydrogen production technologies.
- Exploit the deployment potential of the BHARAT-EU process.
WP Leader: ARI & NITC
WP7 Demonstration of renewable H₂ production in relevant environment
- Perform engineering, installation, integration and commissioning of the demonstration unit modules.
- Demonstrate a functional process producing renewable H₂ in relevant industrial conditions (TRL5).
WP Leader: CERTH & TSPL
WP8 Communication, dissemination, and exploitation
- Develop the Communication and Dissemination Plan, establishing effective communication channels among the consortium and stakeholders.
- Organize joint activities between EU and Indian partners.
- Develop policy recommendations for regional, national, EU and India levels to incentivize project scale-up.
WP Leader: VEL & HIN