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Presentation: ICO2CHEM | From industrial CO2 streams to added value Fischer-Tropsch chemicals

18.09.2020, 12:00 – 13:00 UTC

ICO2CHEM is an EU Horizon 2020 project. It is funded through SPIRE, the European Public-Private Partnership dedicated to innovation in resource and energy efficiency enabled by the process industries. The project partners are VTT from Finland, INERATEC, Infraserv Höchst, ALTANA, and Provadis Hochschule from Germany, and Politecnico di Torino from Italy.

The focus of the project is on the production of white oils and high molecular weight aliphatic waxes. The technological core of the project consists in the combination of a Reverse Water Gas Shift (RWGS) reactor coupled with an innovative modular Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor.

ICO2CHEM, being part of the call SPIRE08-2017 ‘Utilisation of CO2’, aims at developing a new production concept for converting waste CO2 to value-added chemicals.

ICO2CHEM focuses on a new production concept where industrial streams of waste CO₂ are converted into value-added chemicals and fuels – a circular economy application that will contribute to the decarbonization of the chemical industry. The technological core of the project is the coupling of a Reverse Water Gas Shift reactor (RWGS)with an innovative modular (FT) Fischer-Tropsch reactor inside a transportable container. The process synthesises raw materials that are ready to replace their fossil-based counterparts and to be used as additives of several consumer products such as paints, inks, solvents and coatings.

The partnership involves Finnish, German and Italian top level industries, academic and research centres. VTT (Finland), the project coordinator, successfully fabricated a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst that has been tested jointly with Politecnico di Torino (Italy). The containerized pilot plant provided by VTT is going to be installed at the Industriepark Höchst in Frankfurt (Germany) by Infraserv Höchst. The reactors responsible for the synthesis of the products are designed and manufactured by INERATEC (Germany), who will also demonstrate on the field the robustness and reliability of the proposed micro-reactor technology. ALTANA (Germany), will utilize white oils and wax emulsions as a raw material for targeted chemical products, demonstrating the effectiveness of the process as an alternative-to-fossil source at an industrial level. The economic and business analysis will be provided by Provadis Hochschule (Germany).

Project website: www.spire2030.eu/ico2chem