Descrizione del progetto
Trasformazione innovativa di materie prime urbane per combustibili sostenibili
Le tecnologie avanzate offrono processi innovativi che utilizzano fanghi di depurazione, rifiuti alimentari e rifiuti lignei edili per produrre benzina e gasolio «drop-in» di sintesi sostenibili. Il progetto NextGenRoadFuels, finanziato dall’UE, applicherà una tecnologia avanzata di liquefazione idrotermica per ottenere questi due tipi di combustibili «drop-in» a basso costo, a partire da residui biogenici concentrati derivanti dalle attività urbane. NextGenRoadFuels progetterà fasi del processo innovative e ottimizzerà quelle esistenti, al fine di ottenere prestazioni simili a quelle della lignocellulosa. Il progetto dimostrerà che è possibile convertire oltre 100 milioni di tonnellate di materie prime urbane all’anno in quasi 500 000 barili di gasolio e benzina «drop-in» a basso costo ogni giorno, generando nell’UE 50 000 posti di lavoro direttamente, e ulteriori 300 000 in maniera indiretta, nonché riducendo le emissioni di gas a effetto serra del 70 %.
Obiettivo
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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