Descripción del proyecto
De gases residuales industriales a productos intermedios para bienes de consumo
La industria de transformación de la Unión Europea debe iniciar su proceso de descarbonización y, al mismo tiempo, reducir su efecto invernadero. Para hacer frente a este reto, el proyecto Carbon4PUR, financiado con fondos europeos, tiene por objeto convertir los flujos de gases de combustión, procedentes de industrias de gran consumo de energía y que contienen dióxido y monóxido de carbono, en productos intermedios valiosos para bienes de consumo. Su equipo se centrará en desarrollar y demostrar un proceso innovador que convierta directamente los gases de combustión químicos, lo que acabará con la necesidad de emplear costosos métodos físicos de separación. De este modo, se reducirá de forma notable la huella de carbono de la industria, lo que supondrá un importante ahorro económico. En Carbon4PUR se empezará recogiendo y tratando las emisiones industriales de una empresa siderúrgica y entregándolas a una empresa química.
Objetivo
The EU process industry needs to become less dependent of fossils as source of carbon, and – at the same time - to reduce the greenhouse effect by decarbonizing the economy. Carbon4PUR will tackle the two challenges at the same time by transforming the CO2/CO containing flue gas streams of the energy-intensive industry into higher value intermediates for market-oriented consumer products. The industrially driven, multidisciplinary consortium will develop and demonstrate a novel process based on direct chemical flue gas mixture conversion, avoiding expensive physical separation, thus substantially reducing the carbon footprint, and also contributing to high monetary savings.
Both the consortium and the work are organized along the full value chain starting with the provision and conditioning of industrial emissions from a steel to a chemical company in line with the concept of industrial symbiosis, going through the transformation into chemical building blocks which will be further transformed into polymer intermediates and flow into desired sustainable polyurethane applications of rigid foams and coatings. LCA and technology evaluation will be done and replication strategies to transfer the technology to other applications will be elaborated. The distinctive feature of the developed process is avoiding resource-intense separation of the gas components before the synthesis, and developing a chemo-catalytic process to deal directly with the gas mixture instead. The challenge and innovation is coming up with an adjustable process in terms of on-purpose and demand tailor-made production of required products, taking into account all variables at the same time: the available flue gases characteristic from the steel plant, material and process parameters, and the market requirements for the end product, thus flexibly involving the whole value chain with best results and possibly lower the prices.
Ámbito científico
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciencespolyurethane
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiological behavioural sciencesethologybiological interactions
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringcarbon capture engineering
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-SPIRE-2017
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
51373 Leverkusen
Alemania