Description du projet
Convertir le surplus d’énergie provenant des énergies renouvelables en gaz naturel synthétique stockable
La distribution à grande échelle de systèmes d’énergie renouvelable tels que l’énergie éolienne et solaire est entravée car il n’existe actuellement aucun moyen efficace de stocker l’énergie électrique excédentaire. Une solution consiste à utiliser le surplus d’énergie pour produire du gaz naturel synthétique (GNS) pouvant être facilement stocké, transporté et reconverti en électricité. Dans le même temps, cela permet de réduire la nécessité d’importer du gaz naturel. Le projet ElectroGas, financé par l’UE, vise à finaliser les études techniques et à optimiser son prototype pour une nouvelle technologie basée sur l’électrolyse qui convertit efficacement l’électricité d’origine éolienne et solaire en GNS stockable. À terme, il permettra d’accroître la pénétration des systèmes d’énergie renouvelable ainsi que la production nationale de GNS.
Objectif
Electric grid storage continues to pose a major technical and economic pain. While the last decade has seen disruptive improvements in battery technology, even with current leading-edge solutions, large-scale applications of batteries are not economically feasible in many scenarios.
This incapacity to consume large amounts of excess electricity has been one of the biggest obstacles to high penetration of renewable energy systems, such as wind power.
Our CEO, José Campos Rodrigues, Electrical and Nuclear Engineer, has invented, patented and demonstrated a new technology for efficient electrochemical production of synthetic natural gas (SNG). This is considered a great energy storage due to rising prices for natural gas and the dependency from imports, and as energy carrier offers the advantages to be easily stored, transported and back-converted into energy.
The European Patented Electrogas is a system that can be scaled from 1kW up to 1MW of power and will generate SNG using available non-dispatchable electricity.
Conventional techniques to produce SNG require high temperatures and pressures. The capacity of Electrogas to produce synthetic gas at low temperature and pressure is revolutionary for its technical and economic feasibility.
Our consolidated market segments will exceed 5 billion € in 2020 (2 digits annual growth rate), including Synthetic Fuels, the Electricity storage market, grid management systems, Islands and other isolated systems and micro-grids.
Our current team of 4 members, including our Head of Sales, José Galvão Lucas, with 30 years’ experience in the liquid fuels market in Portugal and Spain, raised 500.000€ for the proof-of-concept of Electrogas (currently on our 3rd prototype, with 1kW, at TRL 6), of which 350.000€ were a research grant from the Portuguese government.
Electrogas solves two of Europe’s problems: it enables higher penetration of renewable energy and locally produces SNG, increasing energy security and reducing imports.
Champ scientifique
CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.
CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsliquid fuels
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectric batteries
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gas
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelssynthetic fuels
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
2500 064 Caldas Da Rainha
Portugal
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.