Description du projet
Produire du biodiesel à partir d’huile usagée
Les émissions des véhicules contribuent de manière significative au changement climatique et au réchauffement de la planète. Le biodiesel (produit à partir d’huile végétale) a été envisagé comme substitut au diesel. Cependant, l’utilisation d’huiles comestibles, nécessaires à sa production, donne lieu à des conflits au sein de la filière de production de cultures vivrières, ce qui les rend moins attrayantes. De nouvelles technologies permettant de traiter les huiles non comestibles de moindre qualité, telles que les huiles usagées, sont actuellement à l’étude, et cette nouvelle matière première a été testée expérimentalement avec des résultats prometteurs. Néanmoins, le procédé nécessite d’être plus amplement examiné. Le projet UNPRECEDENTED, financé par l’UE, combinera les données expérimentales et la modélisation théorique pour étudier et comprendre les étapes réactives impliquées, et évaluer la conversion des huiles usagées pour la production de biodiesel.
Objectif
40% reduction on emissions should be achieved by 2030 within EU with the outstanding goal for Europe to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050. These goals need to be reached without jeopardizing economic development and growth, and simultaneously fulfilling the UN goals for sustainability.
One of the main contributors to climate change and global warming is emissions from our vehicles as these mainly use petroleum-based fuels. To address this, new approaches, methodologies, and technologies must be developed.
Biodiesel is one option to substitute diesel; however, its production has been controversial since it requires the use of edible oils and thus creates conflicts with the production of food crops, making it less attractive. Because of this problem, newer technologies are being developed to treat lower quality nonedible oils. However, as yet, these are not economically viable.
To address these problems, UNPRECEDENTED will focus on the use of waste oil. This new raw material has been tested experimentally with promising results. However, how the reaction is taking place and the steps involved is far from being understood. This lack of knowledge has a negative effect when selecting new technologies or testing new feedstocks.
UNPRECEDENTED will use a combine methodology of experimental data and theoretical modelling (DFT based calculations) to study and fully comprehend the biodiesel production reaction. This methodology will permit a full understanding of the reactive steps involved, the reaction pathway that is followed as well as the energies involved in each reactive step. This methodology will assess for the conversion of waste oil in the presence of renewable alcohols to produce biodiesel when using new catalytic materials that are biobased, produce from renewable sources, and enriched with glycerol.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculeslipids
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryalcohols
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbiofuels
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit GrantCoordinateur
1433 As
Norvège