Descrizione del progetto
Dai gas di scarico industriali agli intermedi per i beni di consumo
L’industria di trasformazione dell’UE deve dare avvio al processo per la sua decarbonizzazione riducendo al contempo l’effetto serra da essa generato. Per affrontare questa sfida, il progetto Carbon4PUR, finanziato dall’UE, mira a convertire i flussi di scarichi gassosi contenenti biossido e/o monossido di carbonio emessi dalle industrie ad alta intensità energetica in preziosi prodotti intermedi per i prodotti di consumo. Il progetto si concentrerà sullo sviluppo e la dimostrazione di un processo innovativo in grado di convertire direttamente i gas di scarico chimici, eliminando la necessità di impiegare costosi metodi di separazione fisica. Ciò ridurrà in modo significativo l’impronta di carbonio del settore, consentendo di realizzare notevoli risparmi economici. Carbon4PUR inizierà il proprio lavoro raccogliendo e trattando le emissioni industriali di un’azienda siderurgica per poi consegnarle a un’azienda chimica.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
51373 Leverkusen
Germania