Periodic Reporting for period 3 - Heat-To-Fuel (Biorefinery combining HTL and FT to convert wet and solid organic, industrial wastes into 2nd generation biofuels with highest efficiency)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2020-03-01 do 2022-04-30
Heat-to-Fuel (HtF) will spearhead EU’s research in grasping the opportunity to provide efficient technologies and processes generating decarbonized fuels for the transportation sector.
As shown in the HtF process scheme, the organic waste feedstock is separated into two streams, the "dry" and the "wet" route. Several questions concerning the process specification have been answered by fundamental research performed during the first year of the project. The results show that the HtF process is in the position to handle any organic waste feedstock, there are just some minor limitations within gasification, mainly concerning the physicochemistry of feedstock’s ash. For this reason several feedstocks are tested in three different scales at the moment in Poland, Spain and France. The solution for this issue will be the key to unlocking the main potential of HtF biorefinery. On the other hand, wet organic wastes (i.e. from hydrothermal liquefaction or other streams) can be conveniently treated with APR to produce renewable H2.