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Green methanol for a green future MefCO2 is a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary project that is developing an innovative technology that will use surplus electricity to synthesise ‘green’ methanol from captured CO2. This could help mitigate global warming, abating one of the most pressing global challenges we face The EU has ambitious goals regarding the use of renewables, with the target set at a reduction of 20 per cent of CO2 emissions by the year 2020, along with an increase of 20 per cent of renewables and an increase of 20 per cent in energy efficiency. One project has been designed to make a significant and sustainable contribution to these goals, while simultaneously enhancing Europe’s competitiveness in the field. MefCO2 (Synthesis of methanol from captured carbon dioxide using surplus electricity) is a four-year EU Horizon 2020 project aiming to develop an innovative green chemical production technology. ‘With the increased deployment of renewable electricity generation from intermittent sources like wind and solar, the need to store or find alternative uses for surplus energy has become more apparent,’ explains Ómar Freyr Sigurbjörnsson, who is Director of R&D at renewable methanol company Carbon Recycling International, Iceland, and a key collaborator in the project. TRANSNATIONAL COLLABORATION Alongside Sigurbjörnsson, other key collaborators include Loredana Magistri, Associate Professor at the University of Genoa, Italy, who is collaborating with national and international companies and is part of the steering committee of the Rolls-Royce LG Fuel Cell Systems UTC; Blaž Likozar of the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia, a Fulbright Program alumnus; and Ángel Sánchez-Díaz, who has a doctorate in Applied Physics and is CEO of i-deals Innovation & Technology Venturing Services, Spain. MefCO2 has united like-minded individuals from private companies, institutions and universities across Europe to lay the foundations for a sustainable new business model. ‘The MefCO2 business model works by coupling together such diverse industries as power generation, transportation and manufacturing,’ Sigurbjörnsson explains. In fact, it brings together eight partners from across Europe: i-deals (project coordinator); National Institute of Chemistry (NIC), Slovenia; Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe (MHPSE), Germany; Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI), UK; Carbon Recycling International EHF (CRI), Iceland; the University of Genoa (UNIGE), Italy; Hydrogenics Europe NV (HYGS), Belgium; and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany. The project involves industrial and institutional consortium partners on an international scale, with partners participating in various Work Packages (WPs) spanning heterogeneous catalyst development to commissioning and testing of the demonstrational pilot site. Likozar highlights the importance of the project’s collaborative nature: ‘Such a collaborative organisational nature is important as it demonstrates a good practice example along the way of commercialisation, with partners cooperating along the whole R&D chain, as well as transnationally, practically all over the EU territory.’ NEW USES FOR METHANOL The project is making use of one of the most common and widespread platform chemicals and precursors for further syntheses: methanol. However, whereas methanol is traditionally produced from synthesis gas, which is obtained by reforming natural gas and demands very low CO2 and stable hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratios, in MefCO2 flexible methanol synthesis will occur with high CO2 streams as an input, which will originate from thermal power stations that use fossil fuels. Hydrogen will be obtained from water electrolysis using surplus intermittent energy that otherwise would have low or negative value to the grid. MefCO2 is seeking to demonstrate the economic feasibility of valorising captured CO2 by turning it into a versatile platform chemical and renewable fuel such as methanol using hydrogen produced from renewable energy surplus. Essentially methanol becomes an energy carrier for renewable energy from non-biological sources, such as wind and solar. The main benefits of the project are threefold: first, the mitigation of exhaust CO2 and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; second, the stabilisation of the electric grid by the consumption of the electric energy at itsPDF Image | GREEN METHANOL FOR A GREEN FUTURE
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