Descripción del proyecto
Allanar el camino para el uso de biomasa en el transporte verde
El sector del transporte es responsable de más de una cuarta parte de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero de Europa y la principal causa de la contaminación atmosférica urbana. La biomasa puede ayudar a la descarbonización de este sector. La biomasa absorbe CO2 a medida que crece, por lo que es una clase de recurso renovable que se puede convertir en biocombustibles para el transporte. Con todo, debido a la gran complejidad y los elevados costes del proceso, menos del 0,1 % de la biomasa se usa para producir biodiésel. En este sentido, el equipo del proyecto CONVERGE, financiado con fondos europeos, validará una cadena de valor innovadora para la producción de biodiésel verde. En CONVERGE se favorecerá la adopción de residuos y biomasa secundaria como recurso destinado a producir metanol verde para la fabricación de biodiésel.
Objetivo
The CONVERGE project will validate an innovative value chain for the production of green biodiesel. The innovative configuration will reduce the total number of unit operations needed to achieve the conversion of secondary biomass and waste streams into green biodiesel, while simultaneously producing additional intermediate green refinery products. The CONVERGE project will demonstrate 5 unit operations in 3 grouped processing steps (pre-processing, valorization & enhanced methanol), taking these new combinations from the discovery stage (TRL3) to development stage (TRL5). The combination of these technologies will increase the biodiesel production from secondary biomass by 12% together with biodiesel production will be reduced by up to 2100 M€ across Europe. In this project, risks are mitigated from the very start; each unit can be implemented as a stand-alone function within a modified state-of-the-art technology chain and thus provide immediate performance and energy efficiency improvements. Moreover, the units when used together have synergies that allow even more efficiency gains. The new units to be taken from discovery to development are: CCT: Catalytic cracking of tars from a gasifier to below green C8, integrated with BITS: Recovery of refinery products including aromatics for green C6-C8 fraction (BTX). Then, SER: Sorption-Enhanced Reforming is adopted for H2 and CO2 separation, integrated with EHC: Highly efficient electrochemical compression of green H2 with by-product fuel EMM: Enhanced Methanol Membrane synthesis to ensure green biodiesel production. The technology will be validated for more than 2000 cumulated hours. The CONVERGE consortium covers the whole value chain from secondary biomass supply to biodiesel production, demonstrating the new unit operations on site within an ambitious 50 months period.
Ámbito científico
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Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-SingleStage
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
20133 Milano
Italia