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H2020Staff exchange2019–2023

BIOMASS-CCU · Biomass gasification with negative carbon emission through innovative CO2 capture and utilisation and integration with energy storage

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2019-01-01 → 2023-12-31
EU contribution
€846,400
Participants
17
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Biomass gasification with negative carbon emission through innovative CO2 capture and utilisation and integration with energy storage

The emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) causes serious challenges to the climate and to the sustainable development of modern society. To realise a low carbon future, the EU has issued legislation including the 2020 Climate & Energy package, which sets a key target for 20% of EU energy from renewables. The use of biomass in the heat and power sectors will promote a low carbon economy. However, the deployment of biomass gasification is slow as it still has key challenges such as high costs with economic risks, inefficient use of surplus heat, syngas cleaning and upgrading, as well as the uncertainty of CO2 saving. The project will promote the development and deployment of negative carbon technology for the future energy system. This will contribute to the mitigation of climate change in relation to controlling the emission of CO2. The impact on society can be indicated by the level and number of public engagement (e.g. visiting of project website, attendance of policymakers and regulators in the organised workshops and conference symposium, and the numbers of news reports in social media. The project aims to develop and maintain long-term collaborations between universities in the European Union with China and Australia. The collaboration is centred on the goal of beyond the current state-of-the-art of biomass gasification through staff exchanges with world-leading researchers in gasification process engineering, catalysis, in-situ CO2 capture, non-thermal plasma, energy storage, life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis. Overall, progress towards the objectives of each WP is satisfactory. The objectives of biomass gasification, catalysis and in-situ CO2 capture have been completed. Objectives of energy storage, life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis are well progressing and we are confident that they will be completed in a timely manner.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

This Research and Innovation Staff Exchange project aims to develop and maintain long term collaborations between universities in the EU with China and Australia. This collaboration will build a truly world-leading group through a total of 254 person months of structured international and intersectoral staff exchanges involving 77 individual researchers to innovate next generation low carbon fuel production. Extensive training and knowledge transfer activities will be carried out to enhance career development of the project participants. The research and innovation unites researchers with a common goal to advance biomass gasification technology by integrating CO2 capture and utilisation with multifunctional catalyst materials. Consequently, the BIOMASS-CCU consortium aims to maximize the environmental benefit of carbon emission, and enhance the economic feasibility by producing high value alkenes from CO2 using conventional and advanced non-thermal catalysis. Additionally, through the combination with energy storage and novel heat exchange approaches, energy efficiency of biomass gasification will be significantly enhanced. Extensive techno-economic and life cycle analysis will be carried out to justify the advantages of the proposed biomass gasification technology. BIOMASS-CCU will create a multi-disciplinary consortium consisting of engineers, chemists, material scientists, physicists and applied mathematicians to develop advanced biomass gasification. This project will provide an innovative and economic biomass waste gasification concept for European municipalities, energy production companies and SME’s. The EU partners plan exploitation of the technology through spin-out companies and industrial partnerships. Also, the development of advanced CO2 capture and conversion technologies will promote the jobs creation in low carbon fuels for sustainable future.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST · BELFASTCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIE · KrakowPoland
  • ALP TECHNOLOGIES LTD · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • ASTON UNIVERSITY · BirminghamUnited Kingdom
  • DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES · DALIANChina
  • HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · WUHANChina
  • INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE · BEIJINGChina
  • LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY · Thunder BayCanada
  • MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY · SydneyAustralia
  • PANNON EGYETEM - UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA · VeszpremHungary
  • SUMITOMO SHI FW ENERGIA POLSKA SP ZOO · WARSZAWAPoland
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL · LIVERPOOLUnited Kingdom
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY · SydneyAustralia
  • UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA · LeioaSpain
  • UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA · VANCOUVERCanada
  • XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY · XI'ANChina
  • Zhejiang University · HANGZHOUChina

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union