Descrizione del progetto
Alimentare una nuova soluzione per l’energia flessibile
La decarbonizzazione dell’economia e la garanzia di un’energia sicura figurano tra le priorità dell’UE. La sostituzione dei combustibili fossili con fonti rinnovabili migliorerà l’efficienza energetica e porterà a sistemi energetici più flessibili. In questo contesto, il progetto Bio-FlexGen, finanziato dall’UE, migliorerà l’efficienza e la flessibilità di impianti di cogenerazione di energia elettrica e termica basati sull’energia rinnovabile. L’aspetto innovativo risiede nella combinazione unica di gassificazione e tecnologia delle turbine a gas che consente all’impianto di utilizzare l’idrogeno per una fornitura rapida e la biomassa per bassi costi operativi nel corso del tempo. Il progetto propone l’impiego di due fonti di energia rinnovabile: l’idrogeno ecologico ricavato da fonti rinnovabili variabili e la biomassa. I risultati svolgeranno un ruolo fondamentale nell’integrazione dei sistemi energetici e contribuiranno in misura notevole alla decarbonizzazione dei sistemi energetici.
Obiettivo
Climate change is the most significant challenge for humanity today. For this reason, fossil fuels must be replaced utilising renewables, improved energy efficiency and more flexible energy systems. An optimal combination of several renewable sources is needed to satisfy human energy needs. Bioenergy, in combination with hydrogen, can take the role as secure and plannable source for power and heat complementing intermittent renewable sources such as wind and sun.
BIO-FlexGen will increase the efficiency and flexibility of renewable energy-based combined heat and power (CHP), playing a key role in energy system integration, and make a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of the energy system.
In particular, to overcome these challenges, Bio-FlexGen brings to the table a unique combination of gasification and gas turbine technology that allows the plant to utilise hydrogen for fast dispatch and biomass for low operating costs over time. Due to the high efficiency, three times more power can be generated from biomass for the same heat load, and the plant can quickly achieve full load by starting and operating on 100% hydrogen. To meet fluctuations in seasonal demands and prices, a variant of the plant can provide climate-positive hydrogen production during long periods of low electricity prices or heat demand.
To do so, Bio-FlexGen consortium gathers the necessary experience, knowledge and resources through a multi-stakeholder approach that covers the whole value chain of the project. It consists of a multidisciplinary team of 14 entities from 5 different EU countries (Spain, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Hungary), among which, 4 universities, 2 RTD organisations, 1 NGO, and 4 SMEs to ensure market exploitation (2 industrial companies and 1 District heat company).
Campo scientifico
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizations
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power generationcombined heat and power
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energyhydrogen energy
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H2020-LC-GD-2020-1
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
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