DELIVERABLE - Project Acronym: BeingEnergy Grant Agreement number: 303476 Project Title: Integrated...

DELIVERABLE

Project Acronym: BeingEnergy

Grant Agreement number: 303476

Project Title: Integrated low temperature methanol steam reforming and high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell

D6.4 – Dissemination Report

Revision: 1.1

Authors: Alfredo Silva (INOVA+)

Project co-funded by the FCH-JU within the Seventh Framework Programme

Dissemination Level

P Public X

C Confidential, only for members of the consortium and the Commission Services


D6.4_V1.1 © BeingEnergy Page 2 of 19

Revision History

Revision Date Author Organisation Description

1.0 22/04/2016 Alfredo Silva INOVA+ First version

1.1 27/04/2016 Adélio Mendes,

Marta Boaventura UPORTO Revision

Statement of originality:

This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise.

Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.



TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

1. Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................................................4

2. Dissemination Objectives and Planning ....................................................................................................................5

2.1 Dissemination objectives ........................................................................................................................................ 5

2.2 Target audience ...................................................................................................................................................... 5

2.3 Methods and tools .................................................................................................................................................. 6

3. Website................................................................................................................................................................7

4. Publications .......................................................................................................................................................8

5. Dissemination Actions .................................................................................................................................9

5.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 9

5.2 Dissemination actions per partner .......................................................................................................................... 9

5.3 Hannover Messe Fair participation ....................................................................................................................... 11

5.4 Review Days participation .................................................................................................................................... 12

6. Conferences..................................................................................................................................................... 13

6.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 13

6.2 Conference selection ............................................................................................................................................. 13

6.3 ICCMR conference series ....................................................................................................................................... 13

6.4 The ICCMR11 event ............................................................................................................................................... 14

6.5 The ICCMR12 event ............................................................................................................................................... 14

7. Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................................ 15

Annex I – Project Flyer and Handout............................................................................................................................ 16

Annex II – ICCMR11 Presentation ................................................................................................................................ 18

Annex III – ICCMR12 Presentation ............................................................................................................................... 19



1. Executive Summary

Even though BeingEnergy was a R&D project, part of the work effort was dedicated to

dissemination, as it was considered important to build awareness to the project as to prepare its

future exploitation. This effort was a large part of BeingEnergy’s work package 6.

The detailed planning of the dissemination work took place in the first six months of the project,

and were detailed in deliverable D6.2 – Dissemination Plan. The consortium followed this plan

through the life of the project, adapting it as required based on available resources and

opportunity. By the end of BeingEnergy the dissemination plan had been implemented

successfully, with all of the dissemination objectives having been achieved and even surpassed

in some areas (e.g. the project had planned to participate in one conference, but was able to

participate in two).

The current document details the entire dissemination effort of the project. The deliverable is

structured in successive sections as to follow a logic path, from the dissemination planning to the

various actions done, to the conclusions:

Dissemination Objectives and Planning: what the dissemination effort aimed to

accomplish, and how it would be done through the project’s life;

Website: online presentation of the project;

Publications: scientific papers published as a result of the project’s work;

Dissemination Actions: various dissemination actions done by the consortium partners;

Conferences: conferences were the project presented its results;

Conclusions: analysis and wrap up of the dissemination effort.



2. Dissemination Objectives and Planning

2.1 Dissemination objectives

The aim of the BeingEnergy project was to develop a fuel cell power supply prototype based on

the synergetic integration of high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cell (HT-PEMFC) stack and

low temperature methanol steam reforming reactor using a very active new reforming catalyst.

Such a fuel cell had great commercial values, which is why, during the project’s execution, the

consortium considered several options for its future exploitation.

A key part of the preparation of the project’s future exploitation was building awareness to it. As

such BeingEnergy included Work Package 6 (WP6), led by INOVA+, to perform this work. All other

7 project partners (UPORTO, DLR, VTT, SerEnergy, ITM-CNR, UPVLC-ITQ, and Rhodia/Solvay)

also participated in some capacity in the dissemination effort.

The dissemination work had the following objectives:

Create awareness: make the project known to industry and academia across Europe,

through participation in conferences and workshops, and contacts with associates/clients;

Disseminate project results: make the project results known in order to prepare their

future exploitation;

Feedback collection: obtaining responses from dissemination audiences in order to improve

the project’s work, and improve the future exploitation plan.

2.2 Target audience

The dissemination work was aimed at the following primary target audiences:

Scientific community: research centres, universities, and any other organisations

dedicated to R&D in the energy sector that could have an interest in the technology being

developed;

SMEs/large companies: companies of all sizes that could have an interest in the fuel cell

technology as systems integrators, business partners, or end users;

Venture capitalists: entrepreneurs that could be interested in investing in the fuel cell area,

and in the BeingEnergy technology.

Public sector: public sector organisations such as Energy, Technology, or Environment

Ministries that could have an interest in supporting the deployment of new fuel cell

technologies for economic, technological, or environmental reasons.

In addition to the above the consortium also considered a number of secondary target audiences.

These were audiences which will not be specifically targeted, but which could nevertheless be

exposed to the project as a result of other dissemination activities (e.g. the project Web site,

papers publication, participation in event, etc.). Secondary targets included:

Organisations outside the energy sector: entities which were not part of the primary

targets of the dissemination work, but that nevertheless could have an interest in the

results of the project.

General public: all individuals, related or not to the core target audiences that show an

interest will be given information on the project work and the fuel cells sector.



2.3 Methods and tools

A wide variety of dissemination methods and tools were envisaged to be mobilized and used by

all project partners: project Web site, contact networks, participation in seminars and relevant

events, press releases and publications in media, etc. While these are the planned activities, the

consortium took advantage of other dissemination opportunities that arose during the project’s

duration (e.g. participation in Hannover Mess 2015).

The table below describes the relationship between the target groups and the dissemination

methods and tools.

Table 1 – Relationship between targets and tools of dissemination

Dissemination

activity Target Groups Means and Tools

Local dissemination

of project results

- Private or public organisations

- General public

- Personal contact

- Meetings

- Web site

Dissemination of

general applicability

world wide

- Public sector service

- Companies (system integrators,

end users)

- Venture capitalists,

- Printed materials

- Personal contact

- Web site

Dissemination of

commercial

potentials

- Companies (system integrators,

end users)

- Venture capitalists,

- Public sector service organizers

- Distribution network

of partners

- Personal contact

- Meetings

Dissemination of the

scientific results

- Scientific community

- Companies interested in the

developed products

- Scientific papers

- Event participation

In order to support the dissemination work, the consortium developed several support materials,

including a flyer, a handout, and various PowerPoint presentations (Annex I). The latter were

used during event presentations (such as in the two conferences the project participated in),

being each time adapted to the specific theme of the exhibition.



3. Website

BeingEnergy’s website (deliverable D6.1), which is located at www.beingenergy.eu, was designed

by partner INOVA+ in the second month of the project. During the project it was used as a central

hub for the dissemination effort, housing all the various dissemination materials, paper

publications, project news, etc. The site was included a private area accessible only to the

consortium, where the partners could find and upload all documents relevant to the project, such

as deliverables, meeting presentations, dissemination materials, etc.

Image 2 – BeingEnergy Website

The website includes several features, which were maintained and updated regularly by INOVA+,

with the support of the other consortium partners:

News: this is the same type of news reports that already exists in many websites, with

relevant developments, both in the project or related to it, being listed in the front page

ordered by date. News content include title, date and description;

Description/fact sheets: a description of the BeingEnergy project, including the context

that led to it, its objectives, and approach;

Partners/Contacts: quick description of the consortium partners;

Publications: list of scientific papers published as a result of research work done in the

project;

Dissemination Materials: PowerPoint presentation, Leaflets, and other promotion material

will be made available for download for any interested parties;

Restricted Area: part of the Web Site that requires a login to access, used by the project

partners for project management. All of the project’s deliverables, partner contacts, work

plan, contract, and other restricted information is available there for the consortium.

http://www.beingenergy.eu/



4. Publications

Several of the BeingEnergy partners are organisations that are involved in R&D activities in the

energy area and regularly publish papers on scientific journals (e.g. UPORTO and ITM-CNR). Over

the run of the project several partners published papers that involved results obtained from their

work on BeingEnergy, each with full acknowledgement of the FCH-JU funding. These publications

thus provide an important source of dissemination as they expose the project to both the scientific

community, and the organisations/projects that work on the full cell area.

The papers published were as follows:

Katarzyna Morawa Eblagon, Patricia Heydorn Concepción, Hugo Silva, Adélio Mendes, Ultra

selective low temperature steam reforming of methanol over PdZn/ZnO catalysts –

Influence of support defects on catalytic performance, Applied Catalysis B: environmental,

154 (2014), 316-328;

A. Iulianelli, P. Ribeirinha, A. Mendes, A. Basile, Methanol steam reforming for hydrogen

generation via membrane reactores: a review, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews

29 (2014), 355-368;

K. Ghasemzadeh, S. Liguori, P. Morrone, A. Iulianelli, V. Piemonte, A.A. Babaluo, A. Basile,

H2 Production by Low Pressure Methanol Steam Reforming in a Dense Pd-Ag Membrane

Reactor in Co-Current Flow Configuration: Experimental and Modelling Analysis,

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 38 (2013), 16685–16697;

K. Ghasemzadeh, P. Morrone, S. Liguori, A.A. Babaluo, A. Basile, Evaluation of silica

membrane reactor performance for hydrogen production via methanol steam reforming:

Modelling study, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 38 (2013), 16698–16709;

K. Ghasemzadeh, P. Morrone, A. Iulianelli, S. Liguori, A.A. Babaluo, A. Basile, H2

production in silica membrane reactor via methanol steam reforming: Modelling and

HAZOP analysis, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Volume 38 (2013), 10315–

10326;

Simple Urea-assisted Hydrothermal Synthesis Method for Tailoring the Physicochemical

Properties of ZnO: Morphology, Surface Area and Polarity, published in RSC Advances;

Experimental investigation of a coupled liquid cooled high temperature proton exchange

membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cell with a low temperature methanol steam reformer, submitted

to International Journal of Hydrogen;

Master's thesis on the kinetic modelling of MSR reaction, Francisco de Sales Vidal Vázquez,

Aalto University (2013);

Liguori S., Iulianelli A., Dalena F., Pinacci P., Drago F., Broglia M., Huang Y., Basile A.,

Performance and long-term stability of Pd/PSS and Pd/Al2O3 membranes for hydrogen

separation; Membranes 2014, 4(1), 143-162;

Hugo Silva, Cecilia Mateos-Pedrero, Paulo Ribeirinha, Marta Boaventura, Adelio Mendes,

Low-Temperature Methanol Steam Reforming Kinetics over a novel CuZrDyAl Catalyst -

Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis June 2015, Volume 115, Issue 1, pp 321-

339;

P. Ribeirinha, M. Boaventura, José Carlos B. Lopes, José M. Sousa, A. Mendes, Study of different designs of methanol steam reformers: Experiment and modeling, Int J Hydrogen Energy. 2014; 39:19970-81.

CuO/ZnO binary catalysts for methanol steam reforming in conventional and membrane

reactors (2013);

The influence of impurities in high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

performance, Submitted to International Journal of Hydrogen energy, 2015.



5. Dissemination Actions

5.1 Introduction

During the execution of the project the consortium presented BeingEnergy at events or meetings.

These dissemination actions were often done as part of a larger action by the partner, such as

they attending a fair to present the company, or in a business meeting related to a theme covered

by BeingEnergy’s work. The amount of dissemination done depended on the specific conditions,

and could encompass anything from distributing flyers to showing a PowerPoint presentation that

included a description of the project.

In addition to the individual partner actions, and besides the two ICCMR participations, the project

has also been able to be present in several events. This participation included displays in a booth,

with a person present to answer questions and present the BeingEnergy initiative.

5.2 Dissemination actions per partner

UPORTO

Action Topic Date

Event

participation

The effect of calcination of ZnO on the catalytic performance of PdZn/ZnO

catalyst in low temperature methanol steam reforming, ISGC2 Congress MAY 2013

Event

participation

Comparison of Different Reactor Designs for Methanol Steam Reforming,

Book of abstracts PP30, HYCELTEC 2013 – IV Iberian Symposium on

Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and advanced Batteries

JUN 2013

Event

participation

The effect of calcination of ZnO on the catalytic performance of PdZn/ZnO

catalyst in low temperature methanol steam reforming, ISGC2 Congress MAR 2015

Event

participation

HYCELTEC- V Iberian Symposium on Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Advanced

Batteries, oral presentation, “The influence of impurities in high

temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells performance”

JUL 2015

Event

participation

HYCELTEC- V Iberian Symposium on Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Advanced

Batteries, oral presentation, “Comparative analysis of H2 production by

methanol steam reforming in membrane reactors with CO2 or H2 selective

removal”

JUL 2015

DLR

Action Topic Date

Event

participation 64th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry AUG 2013

Event

participation Display at F-Cell conference OCT 2013

Event

participation Participation in Hannover Fair 2014 APR 2014

Event


Client/associate

dissemination

Various contacts and meetings among clients and associates in the

energy industrial area -



VTT

Action Topic Date

Event


Event

participation

Participation in 11th European Congress on Catalysis (EuropaCat-XI) in

Lyon, France with a presentation about kinetic modelling of MSR reaction SEP 2013

Event

participation

Participation in EFC2013 in Rome with a presentation about the integration

of MSR and HT-PEM DEC 2013

Event

participation

Participation in Chemreactor21, oral presentation about reactor design,

Delft, The Netherlands SEP 2014

Event

participation

Participation in EFCF2015, poster presentation about optimised reformer,

Lucerne, Switzerland JUL 2015

SerEnergy

Action Topic Date

Event participation

Participation in Hannover Mesee Fair 2013 APR 2013

Event participation

Participation in Hannover Messe Fair 2014 APR 2014

Event participation

Seminar with Aalborg University APR 2015

Event participation

Participation in Hannover Messe Fair 2015 APR 2015

Client/associate dissemination

Various contacts and meetings among associates in the energy industrial area -

ITM-CNR

Action Topic Date

Event participation

Participation to ICCMR11 in Porto (Portugal) - 2013 (Poster and oral

presentations about LT-MSR in Pd-based membrane reactors: modelling

and experimental analyses)

JUL 2013

Event participation

Participation to World Hydrogen Conference (China) - 2013 (Poster and oral

presentations about LT-MSR in Pd-based membrane reactors: modelling


SEP 2013

Event participation

Participation to EFC12 in Rome (Italy) - 2013 (Poster and oral presentations

about LT-MSR in silica, FBR and Pd-based membrane reactors: modelling


DEC 2013



UPVLC-ITQ

Action Topic Date


Dissemination in the partners of Felder EU project Train2 at Zaragoza 3

& 4 DEC 2012


Spanish School of Molecular Material Almagro FEB 2013

Event participation

Spanish-Italia Scholl Como Lake JUN 2013


Pro-active dissemination at Abengoa Renewables JUL 2013


Various contacts and meetings among associates in the energy industrial

area -

INOVA+

Action Topic Date


Dissemination among associates connected to R&D in the energy sector

(Libelium, Labor S.A.) -

Event participation

Researcher’s Night 2013 SEP 2013

Event participation

Researcher’s Night 2014 SEP 2014



energy industrial area -

Rhodia/Solvay

Action Topic Date



catalyst industrial area -

5.3 Hannover Messe fair participation

The Hannover Messe, an annual event, is the largest industrial fair in the world. The fair covers a

wider range of themes and exhibits in the areas of R&D, industrial automation and IT, industrial

supply, production engineering and services, as well as energy and environmental technology.

Several partners (DLR, VTT, and SerEnergy) often participate in the Hannover Messe fair, and

during the project years these partners included BeingEnergy references (leaflets, posters, etc.)

in their respective booths. However, in the Hannover Messe 2015, FCH-JU kindly allowed the

BeingEnergy project to have a larger presence in its booth. As such, on 16 of April 2015,

BeingEnergy was able to display at the fair a prototype of the fuel cell developed on the project,

and have several people of the consortium present to describe it and answer questions.



Image 3 – BeingEnergy presence in the Hannover Messe 2015 fair

5.4 Review Days participation

The BeingEnergy project participated in the various Review Days organised by the FCH-JU. In

each of them the project presented its results up that point, as well as had its information made

available through the associated media. A person from the consortium was present on each

occasion, to describe the project and answer questions.

Image 4 – BeingEnergy presence in the Review Days 2014 (left) and 2015 (right) events



6. Conferences

6.1 Introduction

As part of the BeingEnergy’s dissemination effort, it was planned that the project would participate

in one thematically relevant international conference. The goal was to hold an especial section

dedicated to the project in the event, resulting in a high-impact dissemination event to help

support the future exploitation of its results.

The BeingEnergy exceeded this goal and was able to participate in two international conferences:

11th International Conference on Catalysis in Membrane Reactors (ICCMR11), which took

place in Porto, Portugal, from 7 to 11 of July 2013 (month 11 of the project);

12th International Conference on Catalysis in Membrane Reactors (ICCMR12), which took

place in Szczecin, Poland, from 22 to 25 of June 2015 (month 34 of the project).

A more detailed description of BeingEnergy’s participation is given in deliverable D6.3.

6.2 Conference selection

Various options for conference participation were analysed, taken from a list of conferences and

fairs whose focus area matched that of the project (for example the annual European Fuel Cell

Forum). The ICCMR11 event, which took place in July 2013 (month 11 of the project), was

selected in early 2013 to hold a BeingEnergy session due to various reasons. The primary one

was its adequacy to BeingEnergy’s work, as the theme of the conference exactly matched that of

the project. Another reason was the easiness of access to the event, given that the ICCMR11 was

organised by one of the project partners in its home city. The timing was also a factor, as at this

point in the project there were already several research results that merited dissemination.

Given that the ICCMR11 conference took place in the first year of the project, and that the project

had a three-year duration, it was decided that the consortium would look for opportunities to

participate in a second international conference. This event had to take place closer to the end of

the project, in order for the consortium to be able to present the near final results. At the start of

2015 it was decided that the BeingEnergy project would participate in the ICCMR12 event, which

took place in June 2015 (month 34 of the project).

6.3 ICCMR conference series

The International Conferences on Catalysis in Membrane Reactors (ICCMR) started in 1994, in

Lyon - France, and continued as a biannual event organised at different locations around the

globe (Moscow 1996, Copenhagen 1998, Zaragoza 2000, Dalian 2002, Lahnstein 2004, Cetraro

2005, Kolkata 2007, Lyon 2009 and Saint-Petersburg 2011).

On the 7 to 11 of July 2013 the 11th International Conference on Catalysis in Membrane Reactors

(ICCMR11) took place in Porto, Portugal. It was organised by partner UPORTO, specifically by

Prof. Adélio Mendes and Dr. José Sousa. ICCMR12 took place on the 22 to 25 of June 2015 in

Szczecin, Poland, and was organised by the Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering,

West Pomeranian University of Technology.

The ICCMR conference series is focused on presenting research and the latest trends on

membrane reactors with an interdisciplinary character: the combination of membranes, catalysis

and reaction engineering, in the perspective of process intensification. All these subjects are

covered in different specific scientific meetings, but the ICCMR conferences cover them as an

overlapping interdisciplinary field. This makes them an ideal match to BeingEnergy’s own work.



The conferences include an afternoon dedicated to European projects, titled “Session on European

Projects related to the conference topics”. This is a special session dedicated to the presentation

of the main results of some of the main EU projects that are running in the area. BeingEnergy’s

participation in both conferences was held in this session.

6.4 The ICCMR11 event

The goal for the 11th edition of the ICCMR1 was to overview of the most advanced studies and

recent trends in the field of the membrane reactors, including engineering of catalysts and

membranes at the nanoscale and microchannel reactors. Special attention was also paid to new

approaches to the modelling of membrane mass transport and to system integration.

The BeingEnergy presentation took place on July 9th 2013, as part of the “Session on European

Projects related to the conference topics” (see Annex II). Its theme was the description of the

research done in Cu-based catalysts during the first year of the project, i.e. the work done in

work package 2 (as the other work packages at this point in the project has less results to

present).

The presentation described the current state-of-the-art in Cu-based catalyst technology,

BeingEnergy’s aim to improve on it, work approach, and results obtained so far. It concluded with

a roadmap of the work and description of the next steps.

6.5 The ICCMR12 event

The goal for the 12th edition of the ICCMR2 continuous to be the overview the current state-of-

the-art in the field of the membrane reactors, including engineering of catalysts and membranes

at the nanoscale and microchannel reactors.

The BeingEnergy presentation took place on June 23rd 2015, again as part of the “Session on

European Projects related to the conference topics” (see Annex III). Its theme was a general

description of the BeingEnergy project, the work done, and the results achieved during its

execution. As such the presentation was divided in three parts:

Overview of the BeingEnergy project, including objectives, consortium, and structure;

A description of the objectives and results per work package;

General conclusions and analysis of the overall results.

1 iccmr11.eventos.chemistry.pt 2 www.iccmr12.zut.edu.pl

http://iccmr11.eventos.chemistry.pt/

http://www.iccmr12.zut.edu.pl/



7. Conclusions

At the start of the project the consortium defined the objective to undergo a dissemination effort

as to pave the way to the future exploitation of its results. In order to achieve this objective, the

partners developed a detailed dissemination plan in the first six months of the project, which they

then implemented through its lifetime.

The plan originally defined by the BeingEnergy consortium was achieved with remarkable

accuracy, and exceeded in some points. Virtually all of the actions initially planned were

performed, and in addition several others not in the original plan (e.g. the second conference

participation, and the participation in the Hannover Messe 2015) were also performed as the

consortium took advantage from unexpected opportunities.

The dissemination effort the BeingEnergy project performed had a large impact in the building of

awareness to the project and its achievements. This effort will be of particular importance on the

future exploitation of the project results, as it created the initial recognition that the project

consortium can now use in its next steps, namely the further development of the fuel cell

prototype and its commercialization.



Annex I – Project Flyer and Handout





Annex II – ICCMR11 Presentation



Annex III – ICCMR12 Presentation

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