ECO2FUEL (DIT.AD017.141)

Thematic area

Engineering, ICT and technologies for energy and transportation

Project area

Structure responsible for the research project

Institute for advanced energy technologies "Nicola Giordano" (ITAE)

Project manager

ANTONINOSALVATORE ARICO
Phone number: 090624224
Email: arico@itae.cnr.it

Abstract

ECO2Fuel aims to design, manufacture, operate, and validate the worldwide first low-temperature 1MW direct,
electrochemical CO2 conversion system to produce economic and sustainable liquid e-fuels (C1-C4 alcohols) under
industrially relevant conditions (TRL7). This will be achieved by the direct electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 using
water and renewable electricity without hydrogen at temperatures and pressures below 80°C and 15 bar, respectively.
Due to its compatibility to dynamic loads, the ECO2Fuel system allows the efficient and direct coupling to renewable
energy sources (RES) or facilitating grid-balancing service. The ECO2Fuel system is based on a genuinely unique
CO2 co-electrolysis technology developed under the Horizon 2020 project LOTER.CO2M. This system will be
optimized to produce efficiently and selectively C1-C4 alcohols and upscaled from 5kW with an unpretentious
approach to a size of 1MW within the ECO2Fuel project. The produced e-fuels will be evaluated as green alternative
feedstock in two of Europe?s CO2 emission heavy sectors, transport and energy.

Goals

ECO2Fuel aims to design, manufacture, operate, and validate the worldwide first low-temperature 1MW direct,
electrochemical CO2 conversion system to produce economic and sustainable liquid e-fuels (C1-C4 alcohols) under
industrially relevant conditions (TRL7). This will be achieved by the direct electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 using
water and renewable electricity without hydrogen at temperatures and pressures below 80°C and 15 bar, respectively.
Due to its compatibility to dynamic loads, the ECO2Fuel system allows the efficient and direct coupling to renewable
energy sources (RES) or facilitating grid-balancing service. The ECO2Fuel system is based on a genuinely unique
CO2 co-electrolysis technology developed under the Horizon 2020 project LOTER.CO2M. This system will be
optimized to produce efficiently and selectively C1-C4 alcohols and upscaled from 5kW with an unpretentious
approach to a size of 1MW within the ECO2Fuel project. The produced e-fuels will be evaluated as green alternative
feedstock in two of Europe?s CO2 emission heavy sectors, transport and energy.

Start date of activity

01/10/2021

Keywords

CO2 electrolysis, Power2X, e-fuels

Last update: 04/12/2024