Description du projet
Pétrochimie sans pétrole et avec des émissions nettement plus faibles
L’usage du pétrole brut ne se limite pas au simple fait de raffiner cet hydrocarbure liquide naturel sous forme de carburant. Le pétrole est également à l’origine de nombreux autres produits chimiques à base de carbone importants sur le plan industriel et social, communément appelés produits pétrochimiques. Les produits pétrochimiques comprennent des composés courants tels que l’éthylène, le propylène et le benzène, utilisés pour fabriquer des produits électroniques, des adhésifs, des peintures, des textiles, des produits pharmaceutiques et des emballages alimentaires. Le projet BIZEOLCAT, financé par l’UE, développe un processus durable et économique visant à introduire l’utilisation d’alcanes légers (méthane, propane et butane) dans la pétrochimie. Le consortium multinational qui comprend des experts en recherche et développement, en industrie et en normalisation prévoit déjà une entreprise commune afin de garantir la poursuite des travaux après la fin du projet.
Objectif
In the past there have been a number of semi-industrial trials and even commercial processes to obtain on-purpose petrochemical feedstocks from methane and/or propane (more generally, C1-C4 hydrocarbons). However, their commercial success has been limited due to several reasons: from technical drawbacks (low conversions and selectivity) to economics (high capital investment and high operation costs are often obtained). Furthermore there is a need for lowering the carbon footprint of gas and oil industry, i.e. refining industry, contributing to an evolving scenario of sustainable economy in such field. BIZEOLCAT is addressing the use of light alkanes as raw material for specialty chemical industry and not as feedstock for fuels in the current oil refining process, becoming part of this transition.
BIZEOLCAT will aim developing 4 new processes of light alkanes (methane, propane and butane) conversion to olefins (propylene, butadiene) and to aromatics demonstrating higher performance, cost efficiency and environmental sustainability, using innovative methodologies for catalysts preparation and membrane reactor design. A refining company, TUPRAS, will run the pilot unit experiments. One large companies, CEPSA will validate propylene and benzene as part of TR5 validation.
sLCA have demonstrated that the expected reduction in the greenhouse emissions related to the manufacturing of propane dehydrogenation developed within the project and also the Aromatization process in comparison to current Oleflex® and benzene production from a reformate plant is far over the target value of 20%.
A joint venture creation is part of BIZEOLCAT exploitation plan.
The BIZEOLCAT consortium comprises 12 partners: 2 technology centres, 2 research institutes, 2 universities, 1 Standardization body, 1 international association and finally 3 large industries and 1 SME from 8 countries (6 EU members, 2 associated countries to H2020)
Champ scientifique
- 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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