B-COR

Benchmarking the most promising emerging CO2 Reuse technologies

Climate-KIC Theme Project duration Lead partner Project lead Project type Low carbon production; carbon capture and re-use 01.05.2012 01.05.2013 TNO Erin Kimball Pathfinder

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Concept
B-COR develops the benchmarking criteria necessary for comparing various emerging CO2 reuse technologies based on their potentials at large scales in light of economic, environmental, and technological factors. CO2 offers a great potential as an industrial
feedstock for fuels, chemicals, and materials in low carbon production systems. Although in some applications the utilization of CO2 as a chemical feedstock is already applied at an commercial level (such as with urea, salicylic acid, and cyclic carbonates), there is still room for improvement and a need for market and innovation potentials to be explored. Besides the already established technologies, there are those that are currently on the edge of being applied, the so-called emerging technologies. This Pathfinder project aims to define criteria by which the numerous CO2 reuse technologies will have a sound basis for being compared against each other. Model processes/technologies will be chosen in order to demonstrate the use of the criteria in a full life-cycle analysis while market and gap analyses will indicate possible business models, barriers to commercialization, and crucial areas of technology development. A key final output will be recommendations for directions of future innovation projects including a survey of relevant SMEs and start-ups.

Overview

Deliverables
Overview of literature on CO2 utlisation technologies and demonstration projects List of benchmarking criteria with functionality shown with model processes Market analysis including at least a qualitative analysis of application areas/ demands, possible business models, and barriers to development Inventory of relevant SMEs and start-ups with their relevant expertises Workshops disseminating research results Final report including a gap analysis and recommendations of the future areas of research and potential innovation projects

Partners
TNO (NL) Imperial College (UK) MinesParisTech (FR) Bayer Technology Services RWTH Aachen (DE)

Role in project and competences

Overall project management; Process modelling expertise Advising of Master students; Catalytic system development Review of work; Interface after carbon capture systems Review of work; Development of catalytic processes Review of work; Catalyst development and modelling

Climate-KIC. Innovating for low-carbon prosperity and climate resilience. Status: 03.09.2012