Project description DEENESFRITPL Harnessing methanol’s potential for a greener maritime sector Maritime transport is a major CO2 emitter. Methanol can help cut the shipping industry’s emissions. Decarbonising methanol production is essential for the long-term sustainability and viability of methanol as a marine fuel. Currently, the use of blue methanol as marine fuel that is produced from natural gas is limited. Furthermore, the conditions or capabilities of a renewable methanol fuel, particularly with respect to water content and organic and sulfur impurities, remain unknown. In this context, the EU-funded UP-TO-ME project aims to evaluate the fuel’s suitability on a marine engine. To transform blue methanol into a sustainable marine fuel, it will also deliver ranges for fuel specifications and maximum limits for impurities. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective It is a great challenge to upgrade decentralized CO2 point-sources to production sites for renewable fuels. These CO2 sources can be related for example to production of biogas in anaerobic digestion plants.UP-TO-ME targets a ground-breaking change in decentralized Power-to-Methanol production for hard to electrify applications, like marine vessels. The potential of producing renewable methanol, only by utilizing the CO2 content of biogas in Europe is 128 Mt/a. UP-TO-ME concept is based on a hybrid process which combines the capture of CO2 with the synthesis to methanol in a fully autonomous, unmanned plant. The process comprises 3D-printed reactors and column packings designed using highly advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics. The fully automated, self-learning and self-optimizing control system allows production at fluctuating conditions by combining dynamical plant models and Artificial Intelligence. The aim of UP-TO-ME to provide self-optimizing control even for off-grid-operation is very challenging and, to our knowledge, has not yet been achieved anywhere for comparable plants. The ability of a remote plant to adapt itself to varying boundary conditions such as availability of renewable energies (e.g. from weather forecasts) or on the availability of CO2 from a fluctuating source, open unforeseen possibilities for distributed production. Currently, so-called blue methanol originating from natural gas, is used in limited cases as a marine fuel. However, the quality requirements of a renewable marine methanol fuel, especially considering water content, organic and sulfur impurities originating from P2X production, are not known. UP-TO-ME will assess experimentally the suitability of the produced fuel on a marine type of engine and provide ranges for fuel specifications and max limits for impurities for this to become a sustainable marine fuel. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactorsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemsengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gasnatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryalcoholsengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringnaval engineeringsea vessels Keywords P2X CCU biogas upgrading methanol autonomous plant metal 3D-printing process intensification marine fuel Programme(s) HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility Main Programme HORIZON.2.5.2 - Energy Supply Topic(s) HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-02 - Next generation of renewable energy technologies Call for proposal HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Coordinator TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY Net EU contribution € 852 506,00 Address TEKNIIKANTIE 21 02150 Espoo Finland See on map Region Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 852 506,00 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE Germany Net EU contribution € 938 865,00 Address KAISERSTRASSE 12 76131 Karlsruhe See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 938 865,00 GLOBAL OMNIUM MEDIOAMBIENTE, S.L. Spain Net EU contribution € 256 129,00 Address GRAN VIA MARQUES DEL TURIA 17 46005 Valencia See on map Region Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 256 129,00 ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS Greece Net EU contribution € 350 000,00 Address KEDEA BUILDING, TRITIS SEPTEMVRIOU, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 546 36 THESSALONIKI See on map Region Βόρεια Ελλάδα Κεντρική Μακεδονία Θεσσαλονίκη Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 350 000,00 CLOUDFLUID GMBH Germany Net EU contribution € 300 000,00 Address EMMY-NOETHER-STR. 17 76131 Karlsruhe See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Stadtkreis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 300 000,00 Partners (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all ISLE UTILITIES LIMITED United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address 61 DOWNS WOOD KT18 5UJ Epsom See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex East Surrey Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data ICODOS GMBH Germany Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address JULIUS HATRY STRASSE 1 68163 MANNHEIM See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Mannheim, Stadtkreis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data
