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 Association for the Decarbonization of Industry

Long-term goal of negative emissions

How leading companies, together with science and the canton of Zug, are leading a promising process to a breakthrough.

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Initiative

In order to achieve the climate goals, the sponsorship intends to raise the process of splitting methane into hydrogen from laboratory to industrial level and to use it quickly in Swiss industrial companies.

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Why association

The Association for the Decarbonization of Industry (VZDI) is responsible for the implementation of the initiative and the development of the ecosystem for the emission-free use of methane.

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Technology

Thanks to close cooperation between research and industry, academic knowledge can be quickly transferred into practice and the process can thus achieve a breakthrough at industrial level.

About the technology

Many steps lead us to the goal

Phase 1

Q4 2022

Methane pyrolysis laboratory plant as a working prototype

Phase 2

 Q4 2024

Construction of a methane pyrolysis plant with an output of 10 kg H2 per hour

Phase 3

 Q1 2025

Commissioning of the first industrial plant in the high-temperature process in Zug/CH and reduction of CO2 emissions by 150 t CO2/year

Phase 4

Q4 2026

Supporting the development of an ecosystem for the use of renewable methane and thus the realization of negative emissions

Quotations

“State-imposed measures are not enough to stop global warming. In close cooperation, research and industry have the potential to further accelerate decarbonization. The Association for the Decarbonization of Industry is a role model that will hopefully be imitated in other areas.”

Andreas Bittig - Association for the decarbonization of industry

January 2023

«We are convinced that the cooperation of business, science and politics is the best breeding ground for innovation. The “Industry Decarbonization” initiative is a prime example.”







Silvia Thalmann-Gut - Zug Economics Director

June 2022

“The decarbonization concept of the association for decarbonization of the industry consists of a two-stage approach: a first step that can be implemented quickly with the decarbonization of natural gas and a second step in which the natural gas is replaced by renewable, synthetic methane. Replacing fossil natural gas with renewable methane will result in negative CO2 emissions»

Christian Bach - BUT

April 2023

News

Truck transporting hydrogen

Initiative for the research on green hydrogen

by Cornelia Bisch • June 2022

The "Zug Initiative for the Decarbonization of Industry" aims to produce hydrogen economically and sustainably. 


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Hydrogen pipelines

Approach for negative CO2 emissions

by Christian Bach • February 2023

Pyrolysis of renewable synthetic methane allows the provision of high temperature process heat with negative greenhouse gas emissions.

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CO2 reduction goal

Goal Reduction of CO2 emissions

by Andreas Bittig • September 2023

Our drive is to reduce the continuously increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.


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