Project description
Petrochemicals without petroleum and with significantly lower emissions
Petroleum, or crude oil, is not only the naturally occurring liquid hydrocarbon that is refined into fuel. It is also the starting point for many other industrially and societally important carbon-based chemicals broadly referred to as petrochemicals. Petrochemicals include common compounds such as ethylene, propylene and benzene used to make electronics, adhesives, paints, textiles, pharmaceuticals and food packaging. The EU-funded BIZEOLCAT project is developing a sustainable and cost-effective process to bring the use of light alkanes (methane, propane and butane) into petrochemicals. The multinational consortium that includes expertise in research and development, industry and standardisation is already planning a joint venture to ensure the work continues after the project finishes.
Fields of science
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryhydrocarbons
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
Spain
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Participants (13)
0313 Oslo
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5612 AE Eindhoven
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7034 Trondheim
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75794 Paris
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1000 Ljubljana
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41790 Kocaeli
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20125 Perstorp
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91190 Gif Sur Yvette
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1040 Bruxelles
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28004 Madrid
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00156 Roma
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
00148 Roma
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28046 Madrid
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