Project description
Turning CO2 into sustainable liquid fuels
Electrochemical reduction of CO2 represents a possible means of producing value-added chemicals or fuels. The EU-funded ECO2Fuel project plans to design and manufacture a new type of low-temperature electrolyser to convert captured CO2 into sustainable liquid fuels. The system will allow efficient and direct coupling to renewable energy sources. The electrocatalytic CO2 conversion using water and renewable electricity will be carried out at temperatures and pressures below 80 °C and 15 bar, respectively. The produced synthetic fuels will be evaluated as a green alternative in two CO2 emission-heavy sectors: transport and energy.
Objective
ECO2Fuel aims to design, manufacture, operate, and validate the worldwide first low-temperature 1MW direct, electrochemical CO2 conversion system to produce economic and sustainable liquid e-fuels (C1-C4 alcohols) under industrially relevant conditions (TRL7). This will be achieved by the direct electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 using water and renewable electricity without hydrogen at temperatures and pressures below 80?C and 15 bar, respectively. Due to its compatibility to dynamic loads, the ECO2Fuel system allows the efficient and direct coupling to renewable energy sources (RES) or facilitating grid-balancing service. The ECO2Fuel system is based on a genuinely unique CO2 co-electrolysis technology developed under the Horizon 2020 project LOTER.CO2M. This system will be optimized to produce efficiently and selectively C1-C4 alcohols and upscaled from 5kW with an unpretentious approach to a size of 1MW within the ECO2Fuel project. The produced e-fuels will be evaluated as green alternative feedstock in two of Europe?s CO2 emission heavy sectors, transport and energy.
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51147 Koln
Germany
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Participants (19)
45141 Essen
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8550 Zwevegem
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20134 Milano
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6827 AV Arnhem
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6802 EG Arnhem
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6827 AV Arnhem
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6802 EG Arnhem
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6827 AV Arnhem
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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11476 Athina
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3088 900 Netanya
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49076 Osnabrueck
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00144 Roma
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1210 Sint-Joost-Ten-Node
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10043 Orbassano
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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46022 Valencia
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00185 Roma
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2400 Mol
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