This collection includes the scientific publications from the Horizon 2020 CONVERGE project that aims at developing a process to produce methanol from agricultural waste, competitive both in terms of effectiveness and price.
The CONVERGE project will demonstrate 5 unit operations in 3 grouped processing steps:
- Catalytic Cracking of Tars (CCT), converting all molecules with long carbon chains (C₉₊) into easier-to-process smaller molecules.
- BTX-scrubber (AREA), removing from the syngas undesired organic sulphur components but also valuable aromatics (cyclical molecules of 6 to 8 carbons the mixture of which is called BTX) that are very useful to the chemical industry.
- Sorption-Enhanced Reforming (SER), breaking down the carbon chains (C₁-C₆) and creating two streams, one containing pure CO₂, the other one containing a mixture of gases to be purified in the EHC.
- Electrochemical Hydrogen Compression (EHC), separating and compressing the H₂ from the SER-stream. The remaining offgas is used as a fuel for the other units.
- Enhanced Methanol Membrane (EMM), taking in the pressurised H₂ from the EHC and some pressurized CO₂ from the SER and producing methanol (CH₃OH or MeOH) ready to be transformed into green biodiesel.
Each unit can be implemented independently in several applications, while the units used together have synergies that allow further efficiency gains. The project is completed by detailed environmental and economic analyses.
Official website: www.converge-h2020.eu
Starting date: November, 1st 2018
Project duration: 50 months
Budget: 5'087'031€
Partners: Politecnico di Milano (IT), TNO (NL), Kemijski Insititut - NIC (SI), University Babes Bolyai (RO), HyET Hydrogen (NL), IFE (NO), Campa Iberia (ES), Biorecro (SE), Ca.Re for Engineering (IT), Enviral As (SK)
Coordinator: G. Guandalini (Politecnico di Milano)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 818135.