Descripción del proyecto
Procesamiento innovador de materias primas urbanas en combustibles sostenibles
La tecnología avanzada ofrece procesos innovadores que utilizan lodos de aguas residuales, desperdicios de alimentos y desechos de madera de construcción para producir combustibles sintéticos (gasolina o gasoil) directos y sostenibles. En el proyecto NextGenRoadFuels, financiado con fondos europeos, se empleará una tecnología avanzada de licuefacción hidrotermal para obtener combustibles de gasolina y gasoil de bajo coste a partir de residuos biogénicos concentrados de la actividad urbana. Se diseñarán pasos del proceso innovadores y se optimizarán los existentes a fin de alcanzar un rendimiento similar al de los combustibles lignocelulósicos. El equipo de NextGenRoadFuels demostrará el potencial de convertir más de 100 millones de toneladas de materia prima urbana al año en casi 500 000 barriles diarios de combustibles de gasolina y gasoil de bajo coste, creando 50 000 puestos de trabajo directos y 300 000 indirectos en la Unión Europea y reduciendo las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en más de un 70 %.
Objetivo
The objective of the NextGenRoadFuels project is to apply advanced HTL technology and subsequent upgrading to a selected range of low value/cost, concentrated biogenic residues from urban activity, in order to obtain cost competitive, sustainable drop-in quality synthetic gasoline and diesel fuels. From a highly efficient and validated baseline HTL process chain designed for lignocellulosics, new innovative process steps will be designed and existing steps optimized to address the additional challenges encompassed by such feedstocks, exemplified by sewage sludge, food waste and construction wood waste (termed urban feedstocks), with the objective to reach similar performance as for lignocellulosics. The main optimization targets are - To establish fundamental pretreatment process and parameters to provide highest possible organic dry matter content in feedstock slurry and efficiently remove valuable inorganics that can have added value as organic fertilizers and/or soil improvers. - To establish HTL processing parameters giving highest possible carbon and energy yields to oil phase - To establish efficient upgrading schemes to bring the HTL intermediate bio-crude to drop-in gasoline and diesel fuels - To close material and energy streams to and from the individual process steps in order to obtain maximum internal utilization and minimal environmental impact - To establish MFSP scenarios demonstrating cost-competitiveness, socio-economic benefits and superior LCA and GHG reduction effects in a pan-European as well as global perspective. Specific targets of the NextGenRoadFuels project are to demonstrate the potential to convert more than 100 M tons urban feedstock per year into almost 500,000 barrels per day of drop-in diesel and gasoline fuels (more than 10 % of the current use in the EU), at a cost of approximately 50-60 Euro-cent per liter. This will generate 50,000 direct and 300,000 indirect jobs within the EU, and reduce GHG emissions by more than 70%.
Ámbito científico
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Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-SingleStage
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
9220 Aalborg
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