Objective
Objectives
The objective of this project is to develop of a new clean electrothermic continuous process for direct carbon nanoparticles and hydrogen production. Carbon nanoparticles cover materials ranging from graphite to carbon black. The process should be clean, with no direct pollutant emissions to the atmosphere, flexible and able to use gaseous or liquid hydrocarbons and should be more energy efficient and consume less raw materials than present processes.
Technical approach
In the partial combustion processes, the necessary energy for cracking hydrocarbons is generated by the combustion of part of the raw material. In this project, an external source forwards the required energy. A 3-phase AC source is used to supply the energy to the plasma reactor. The temperature can be adjusted by the electrical energy input, allowing a quite broad range of operating conditions. The temperatures could range between several hundreds degrees and several thousands degrees and more specifically two zones will be explored : (1) a relatively low temperature zone, between 1100 C and 2000 C, close to the one used in carbon black production and (2) a high temperature zone, above 2400 C, normally used in graphite production.
Graphite electrodes will be used. The hydrocarbon is introduced in the high temperature reaction zone while various injection points are considered. The reaction chamber is insulated and classical techniques are used to separate the carbon from the gaseous stream.
The scale of the experimental set-up will be intermediate between laboratory and industrial.
Expected achievements and exploitation
This new continuous process could replace the Acheson batch process for graphite and without the need for selection and crushing. Carbon blacks will be produced without any emissions of CO2 and NOx. Hydrogen is a high value by-product. Due to better energy management, the process will be more efficient. The plasma technology has a high flexibility. New carbon materials will be produced and consequently new applications will be developed The two industrial partners consider that two to three years will be required to set up a full scale process for both carbon black and graphite production. The plasma technology developed within this project will also find applications outside the carbon industry.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering amorphous solids amorphous semiconductors
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry hydrocarbons
- natural sciences physical sciences plasma physics
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy hydrogen energy
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Coordinator
2830 Willebroek
Belgium
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