Project description
Thermochemical conversion for sustainable biofuel production
The EU-funded BioTheRoS project aims to promote sustainable biofuel production through two innovative thermochemical conversion processes, i.e. pyrolysis upgrading via hydrodeoxygenation, and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis from biomass gasification. The project will bring together important players on a European and international scale, including technological/social specialists, RES-oriented associations, and industrial stakeholders. AI-based predictive demand models will be developed to select the most promising feedstock in terms of biomass availability/quality and cost-effectiveness of the entire supply chain. The efficiency of biofuel production pathways will be evaluated in terms of sustainability (environmental, economic, social) throughout the joint application of a holistic life cycle framework and multi-criteria decision-analysis techniques. Emphasis will be placed on the fundamentals and limitations to accelerate the scale-up of sustainable biofuels worldwide.
Objective
BioTheRoS Project aims at developing a holistic methodology that will boost the scale-up of sustainable biofuels via thermochemical conversion technologies. These are pyrolysis upgrading through hydrodeoxygenation and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis from biomass gasification. The project will bring together key actors at a both European and International level, such as technological and social experts, renewable energy-oriented associations along with industrial experts that will bring and exchange their knowledge in order to reach the project targets. Within the project, several non-food biomass feedstock will be analyzed and optimized across their entire value chain. Barriers linked with the selected feedstocks supply and pretreatment will be identified. Furthermore, AI-based predictive models will be developed, in order to be adapted to the scale-up cases. Then, the most promising biomass feedstock will be tested experimentally in the studied thermochemical reactors. At this point of the project, technical constraints and opportunities for the scale-up of the sustainable biofuels thermochemical processes will be identified. Possible synergies of blending pyrolysis oil and gasification based advanced biofuels will be investigated by a potential end-user (petroleum company). The selected data will be used as an input for advanced modelling tools, including process modelling, CFD tools and LCA/LCC/sLCA tools results of which will feed a multi-criteria analysis to derive generalized up-scaling rules and guidelines of the produced biofuels. The engagement of several stakeholders in the planning of the scaling-up of sustainable biofuels production will be crucial at this point, since they will review the project results and assess if a biofuel production technology can be delivered from the lab/pilot to a larger-scale, by taking into account operational difficulties, plant cost and plant capacity limitations (technological barriers).
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels fossil energy petroleum
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology biomaterials biofuels
- agricultural sciences agricultural biotechnology biomass
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON.2.5.2 - Energy Supply
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-03
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