Description du projet
Traitement innovant des matières premières urbaines pour des carburants durables
Des technologies avancées proposent des procédés innovants utilisant des boues d’épuration, des déchets alimentaires et des déchets de bois de construction pour produire de l’essence synthétique et des carburants diesel de substitution durables. Le projet NextGenRoadFuels, financé par l’UE, appliquera une technologie avancée de liquéfaction hydrothermique pour obtenir des carburants diesel et essence de substitution à partir de résidus biogènes concentrés issus de l’activité urbaine. Le projet concevra des étapes de processus innovantes et optimisera les étapes existantes pour atteindre des performances similaires à celles des lignocellulosiques. NextGenRoadFuels démontrera la possibilité de convertir plus de 100 millions de tonnes de matières premières urbaines par an en près de 500 000 barils de diesel et d’essence de substitution bon marché par jour, générant 50 000 emplois directs et 300 000 emplois indirects dans l’UE et réduisant les émissions de gaz à effet de serre de plus de 70 %.
Objectif
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%.
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H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-SingleStage
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
9220 Aalborg
Danemark