Description du projet
Transformer des gaz résiduaires industriels en produits intermédiaires pour les biens de consommation
L’industrie de transformation de l’UE doit initier son processus de décarbonation tout en réduisant l’effet de serre dont elle est responsable. Pour relever ce défi, le projet Carbon4PUR, financé par l’UE, se propose de convertir les flux de gaz de combustion contenant du dioxyde de carbone/monoxyde de carbone provenant d’industries à forte consommation d’énergie en intermédiaires de valeur pour les produits de consommation. Le projet se concentrera sur la conception et la démonstration d’un processus innovant qui convertit directement les gaz de combustion chimiques, éliminant ainsi le recours à des méthodes de séparation physique coûteuses. Ce processus permettra de réduire considérablement l’empreinte carbone de l’industrie, et par conséquent de réaliser des économies substantielles. Carbon4PUR commencera par recueillir et traiter les émissions industrielles d’une entreprise sidérurgique qu’elle livrera à une entreprise chimique.
Objectif
The EU process industry needs to become less dependent of fossils as source of carbon, and – at the same time - to reduce the greenhouse effect by decarbonizing the economy. Carbon4PUR will tackle the two challenges at the same time by transforming the CO2/CO containing flue gas streams of the energy-intensive industry into higher value intermediates for market-oriented consumer products. The industrially driven, multidisciplinary consortium will develop and demonstrate a novel process based on direct chemical flue gas mixture conversion, avoiding expensive physical separation, thus substantially reducing the carbon footprint, and also contributing to high monetary savings.
Both the consortium and the work are organized along the full value chain starting with the provision and conditioning of industrial emissions from a steel to a chemical company in line with the concept of industrial symbiosis, going through the transformation into chemical building blocks which will be further transformed into polymer intermediates and flow into desired sustainable polyurethane applications of rigid foams and coatings. LCA and technology evaluation will be done and replication strategies to transfer the technology to other applications will be elaborated. The distinctive feature of the developed process is avoiding resource-intense separation of the gas components before the synthesis, and developing a chemo-catalytic process to deal directly with the gas mixture instead. The challenge and innovation is coming up with an adjustable process in terms of on-purpose and demand tailor-made production of required products, taking into account all variables at the same time: the available flue gases characteristic from the steel plant, material and process parameters, and the market requirements for the end product, thus flexibly involving the whole value chain with best results and possibly lower the prices.
Champ scientifique
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciencespolyurethane
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiological behavioural sciencesethologybiological interactions
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringcarbon capture engineering
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
51373 Leverkusen
Allemagne