Project description
A micro-structured reactor technology for CO2-neutral fuels
Our dependence on fossil fuels is causing increasing numbers of CO2 emissions. In line with the Paris Agreement, the EU-funded IMPOWER2X project will scale, multiply and implement the Power-to-X technology developed by German start-up INERATEC. The aim is to make it available faster and at a lower cost considering that CO2-neutral e-fuels and e-products will make a significant contribution to a CO2-neutral world. Specifically, the project will transform INERATEC’s technology from demonstration into industrial applications, and it will reduce the cost of providing it. The project will modularise and standardise existing plant concepts, build up serial production of the modules and the reactors and implement plants at the industrial level and at customer sites.
Objective
INERATEC (IC) sells modular chemical plants for the production of CO2-neutral fuels and materials based on greenhouse gases and renewable power. IC`s disruptive innovation is a micro-structured reactor technology, which can be integrated into containers, allowing a numbering-up that makes the exploration of local and world-scale renewable feedstock sources economically feasible. The Fischer-Tropsch reactor is simultaneously producing e-Diesel and e-kerosene – two renewable products, which, after separation and final conditioning, can help customers in road transport and aviation to significantly reduce their CO2 footprint. IC has implemented 10 demonstration plants so far, reaching TRL 7. With IMPOWER2X TRL 9 is reachable.
To become even more successful, IC must transform its technology from demonstration applications to industrial application, consequently reducing the costs to provide the technology. To achieve that, existing plant concepts will be modularized and standardized, a serial production of the modules as well as the reactors built up and plants implemented at industrial scale and at customers’ sites. Additionally, the public and political acceptance for renewable fuels must be sharpened.
IC will be able to either sell its plants or to provide long-term off-take agreements to customers in the field of e Diesel and e-kerosene, finally allowing to reduce the CO2 footprint of the individual customers by nearly 100%. Geographical sweet spots as well as promising customers worldwide will mainly be targeted.
IMPOWER2X is in alignment with IC’s strategy of strengthening its position as market leader for synthetic, renewable fuel. With IC’s solution, customers and countries will be able to reach their climate targets and positively contribute to the environmental targets. This way the proposal serves the goals of the Green Deal by supporting the EU´s climate mitigation ambitions by helping to come to a clean and sustainable mobility and industry.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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76187 Karlsruhe
Germany
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