Project description
A brighter, more sustainable future for European energy
Europe’s energy future hangs in the balance, as it grapples with the dual challenges of sustainability and security. As demand for energy continues to rise, the need for eco-friendly and reliable sources becomes increasingly urgent. With this in mind, the EU-funded FUELPHORIA project aims to establish sustainable complete value chains for advanced biofuels and renewable fuels and novel biogenic organics. This will help ensure Europe’s energy supply is not only secure but also environmentally responsible. Overall, the project’s impact extends beyond Europe, with international collaboration with Africa envisioned. It emphasises sustainable logistics and embraces the life cycle assessment approach, paving the way for business models, marketing concepts and policy recommendations that unlock the energy system transition potential.
Objective
FUELPHORIA will demonstrate the establishment of sustainable complete value chains for advanced biofuels and RFNBOs for providing Europe with sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply schemes. The project will practically showcase a portfolio of nine complete Value Chains which will be set up and tested in real environment contexts with the active participation of all key players including: the feedstock suppliers (two biogas plants, a winery plant, an urban waste treatment plant); the technology providers who will convert through chemical, electrochemical, biological, thermochemical, and photobiological processes the feedstock (CO2, digestate, urban/ municipal biowaste) into an array of advanced biofuels and RFNBOs (light to long parafins i.e. CH4, medium/long chain hydrocarbons, esters i.e. biodiesel, and light alcohols i.e. ethanol, methanol) that meet quality specifications as defined by the end-users in the transport sector (aviation/maritime, road transport) and in the power production sector (gas or oil fired thermal plants), through four DEMOs in Europe (Belgium, Spain, Greece) while European export potential through international collaboration with Africa is also envisaged. Special emphasis will be also given to the logistics around the fuel production systems, i.e. for the sustainable supply of feedstock and the efficient transport of the final products to their end application. To do this, across the FUELPHORIA project the value chain approach is combined with the Life Cycle Assessment approach in order to not only consider all the different stages of the value chain from feedstock to end use but also to explore how the value chain operates as part of a larger system. FUELPHORIA will define and setup business models and marketing concepts and prepare market entry of the technology solutions as well as of the end-products, and will develop policy recommendations for realising the energy system transition potential.
Fields of science
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryalcohols
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processes
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbiofuels
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Participants (24)
9042 Desteldonk Gent
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2630 Aartselaar
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28006 Madrid
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400 01 Usti Nad Labem
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50018 Zaragoza
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43003 Tarragona
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22300 Barbastro Huesca
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11403 Jerez De La Frontera
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572 00 KOLCHIKO
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570 08 DIAVATA
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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145 61 KIFISSIA ATHINA
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1231 Ljubljana
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46250 L'ALCUDIA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
46003 Valencia
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54655 Thessaloniki
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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551 33 Kalamaria, Thessaloniki
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50132 Firenze
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1190 Bruxelles / Brussel
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21000 Novi Sad
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1065 Nicosia
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80100 Mombasa
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WC1E 6BT London
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