Description du projet
Ouvrir la voie de la biomasse aux transports verts
Le secteur des transports est responsable de plus d’un quart des émissions de gaz à effet de serre en Europe et constitue la principale cause de pollution atmosphérique des villes. La biomasse peut contribuer à la décarbonisation du secteur des transports. Absorbant le CO2 au cours de sa croissance, la biomasse est un type de ressource renouvelable qui peut être converti en biocarburants pour le transport. Toutefois, en raison de la complexité des processus impliqués et des coûts élevés, moins de 0,1 % de la biomasse est utilisée pour produire du biodiesel. Dans ce contexte, le projet CONVERGE financé par l’UE validera une chaîne de valeur innovante de production de biodiesel vert. CONVERGE encouragera l’adoption de déchets et de biomasse secondaire en tant que ressource destinée à produire du méthanol vert pour la production de biodiesel.
Objectif
The CONVERGE project will validate an innovative value chain for the production of green biodiesel. The innovative configuration will reduce the total number of unit operations needed to achieve the conversion of secondary biomass and waste streams into green biodiesel, while simultaneously producing additional intermediate green refinery products. The CONVERGE project will demonstrate 5 unit operations in 3 grouped processing steps (pre-processing, valorization & enhanced methanol), taking these new combinations from the discovery stage (TRL3) to development stage (TRL5). The combination of these technologies will increase the biodiesel production from secondary biomass by 12% together with biodiesel production will be reduced by up to 2100 M€ across Europe. In this project, risks are mitigated from the very start; each unit can be implemented as a stand-alone function within a modified state-of-the-art technology chain and thus provide immediate performance and energy efficiency improvements. Moreover, the units when used together have synergies that allow even more efficiency gains. The new units to be taken from discovery to development are: CCT: Catalytic cracking of tars from a gasifier to below green C8, integrated with BITS: Recovery of refinery products including aromatics for green C6-C8 fraction (BTX). Then, SER: Sorption-Enhanced Reforming is adopted for H2 and CO2 separation, integrated with EHC: Highly efficient electrochemical compression of green H2 with by-product fuel EMM: Enhanced Methanol Membrane synthesis to ensure green biodiesel production. The technology will be validated for more than 2000 cumulated hours. The CONVERGE consortium covers the whole value chain from secondary biomass supply to biodiesel production, demonstrating the new unit operations on site within an ambitious 50 months period.
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20133 Milano
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