Objectives and Overview. The mapping of sources and replication potential aims to identify and locate relevant CO and CO2 sources, chemical production sites in Europe and relevant for the deployment of Carbon4PUR processes in industrial symbiosis settings. The level of information and functionality of the mapping are based on publicly available data sets and interaction with relevant industry companies and industrial associations. The main data elements reported to the user include location, emission volumes, concentration and purity levels of CO and CO2 mixed sources. The mapping team comprised of ICL and DECHEMA helped identify suitable sources combining literature review on compatibility of sources with discussions with catalysis specialists and product process engineers. The mapping reflects availability of suitable sources, after considering the level of potential impurities, showing how their scale and location can be conducive to deploying the Carbon4PUR process. The mapping tool is designed to illustrate the potential from the demand or uptake side of the symbiosis. The mapping will also help to focus attention on large and medium sized stationary industrial installations. In practice, the tool is meant to enable users to evaluate the potential to use CO and CO2 accessible for demand sites by identifying locations with favourable conditions. The interactive visualization is integrated in the Carbon4PUR website and available to the public. It will ultimately enable all users to make a first assessment of potential for polyurethane production using industrial gases in Europe.
Objectives and Overview. Carbon4PUR project aims at developing and demonstrating a novel technology for the production of value added chemicals (polyester polyols), derived from CO and CO2 contained in flue gas streams. The consortium and the development are organized along the full value chain starting from the provision and conditioning of industrial emissions coming from the steel industry to the production of valuable building blocks that will be used in to ready to market products. The consortium aspires that Carbon4PUR will develop a new technology which will avoid expensive physical separation methods, reduce the carbon footprint of ready to market products, contribute to high monetary savings for the EU industry and address the EU process industry dependency on fossil as source of carbon. The project partners pay particular attention to achieving a wide impact through project results and making them available for the external sphere. For this reason a wide set of communication, dissemination and exploitation activities have been planned with the ultimate goal to maximise the impact of the project. One of the foreseen communication and dissemination tasks is the development of a project Website, identified as the Deliverable 8.1. The establishment of the project Website as a dissemination tool serves the following multiple objectives: • Raise awareness within general public and interested stakeholders about the project objectives and the added value of the novel technology; • Widely disseminate project information and relevant communication and dissemination materials; • Increase visibility at both project and partner level; • Inform external parties on project events and other potential events/meeting relevant to Carbon4PUR technology; • Provide a secured documents repository platform with restricted access used by the project partners to facilitate their collaboration and internal communication. The main added value of the Carbon4PUR Website as a dissemination tool is its ability to be updated and edited at a regular basis, allowing therefore external parties to maintain their interest on project developments. As such, the Carbon4PUR Website is regularly maintained in order to disseminate updated information on Carbon4PUR and to trigger external parties to become engaged with the project partners. Website Description The Project Website is hosted at the xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxx0xxx.xx/ IP address. As the project belongs to the portfolio of SPIRE projects, the website is linked ...
Objectives and Overview. Climate change due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and oil depletion are global challenges, which need to be addressed. The European Union set up a goal of the reduction of the GHG emissions by 40% by 2030 (from 1990 levels) (European Commission, 2014). In order to reach this target, a substantial decrease in carbon emissions in the industrial sector should be made. The iron and steel industry is one of the main industrial CO2 emitters, producing 4-7% of global emissions (Xxxxx, 2010). The Carbon4PUR project aims at decreasing GHG emissions and dependency on oil by converting steel mill gas CO/CO2 emissions from steel industry to polyols for polyurethane (PUR) production. Alternative, renewable feedstocks for the synthesis of PUR building blocks have been investigated. Examples include the production of polyols from vegetable oils (Zlatanić et al., 2002) and from oleochemicals (Xxxxxxxxxx et al., 1999). More recently, the usage of carbon dioxide for the production of polyols at industrial scale has become an emerging field of carbon capture and utilization research (CCU) (von der Assen and Bardow, 2014). Likewise, the project Carbon4PUR addresses CCU. As a novelty the Carbon4PUR technology shall use gas mixtures and thus omit the energy intensive step of CO/CO2 separation and purification from steel mill gases (COG, BFG, and BOFG). Typically, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is carried out for mature and implemented technology systems. However, awareness of the need of applying LCA and Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) for emerging technology systems at an early stage of their development has been raised over the past few years. Identification of possible environmental impacts at an early stage of Research and Development (R&D) allows redirecting technology development towards improved environmental performance levels with relatively low costs and high impact, whereas design changes are more difficult to realize during later stages when a technology is close to market implementation. This is the first LCA report within the Carbon4PUR project and presents the results of the LCA of the conventional fossil-based polyols/PUR production system and current use of the steel mill gas from the steel production system, referred to as the baseline system. These results will serve as a reference for evaluating the environmental performance of the novel Carbon4PUR technology (to be published at a later stage of the project).
Objectives and Overview. Deliverable 7.2 aims to help project developers, potential investors, regional development agencies and interested CCU international stakeholders to explore the possibilities to replicate the Carbon4PUR symbioses concept in other parts of Europe. The rationale is for the readers to use the mapping and visualisation tool (described in Deliverable 7.1) and apply hard criteria, mainly related to physical potential in terms of feedstock and potential demand for CCU outputs. Users are guided to either produce and evaluate their own scenarios where demand and supply in material terms coincide or to examine the results of scenarios produced with proprietary research and internal expert consultation within the Carbon4PUR project. All of this considers already emission volumes, concentration and purity levels of CO and CO2 mixed sources. After the identification of sites with physical potential, users are guided to consider semi-hard criteria for successful projects; first, strategic, financial and institutional support for industrial symbiosis in general and, second, strategic, financial and institutional support for low carbon technologies including CCU. At the same time section 3.3 provides guidance and references for sources of financial and organisational support at European level. Soft criteria, discussed in section 3.4, refer to the acceptance by consumers as well as industrial users of both infrastructure and products. The purpose of the section is to inform readers about some preliminary results of research into acceptance and highlight the need to evaluate in further detail, and probably at local level, the drivers of acceptance and the findings of the forthcoming study on this subject within the Carbon4PUR project.
Objectives and Overview. This Schedule 8 (Steering Committee and Governance) sets forth the Steering Committee and governance provisions for the administration and process of the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee is intended to be a forum for (1) communication between the Parties and dedicated responsibility for making decisions and confirming acceptance of items as set forth in the Work Order, and (2) initial dispute resolution processes as set out in Section 16.8 of the Framework Addendum.
Objectives and Overview. The Parties wish to evaluate and screen the Candidate Antigens, select Clinical Candidates and Develop a Product for use in the Field (the “Development Programme”). The Development Programme shall comprise all activities relating to Development. It is anticipated that the majority of Pre-Clinical Studies and Phase I Studies relating to Programme Antigens will be undertaken by Emergent during the Early Development Phase, at sanofi pasteur’s cost, and that the majority of Phase II Studies relating to Programme Antigens and the subsequent Development of Programme Antigens (whether during the Early Development Phase or the Late Development Phase) will be undertaken by sanofi pasteur, at its own cost. The SC shall oversee the overall execution of the objectives of the Development Programme and the JPT shall manage the day-to-day running of the collaboration in the Early Development Phase. The Project Leaders shall facilitate the flow of information and otherwise promote communications and collaboration within and among the Parties, the SC, JPT and any other sub-committees or teams that the SC may appoint or constitute.
Objectives and Overview. The present deliverable has been planned in the work package (WP) 8 “Exploitation and Dissemination of project results”, describing the exploitation plan of the Carbon4PUR results, technologies and concepts. It is a document which summarizes the beneficiaries’ strategy and concrete actions related to the protection and exploitation of the project results. The document is divided into the following chapters: • Chapter 2 briefly presents the exploitation objectives and provides an overview of Carbon4PUR workings; • Chapter 3 elaborates the exploitation strategy and deployed approach for the systematic identification of the project’s exploitable results and actions;
Objectives and Overview. This deliverable refers to work package (WP) 5 which deals with further semi-industrial processing and tests of polyols based on the new Carbon4PUR CO technology. In lab-scale new CO-based polyols were successfully produced from CO-based anhydride in WP3. To accelerate the upscaling, commercial anhydride was used for the production of the semi- industrial scaled samples in WP4. Therefore, the resulting polyols do not yet contain CO. However, based on the lab-scale polyol production from CO-based anhydride in comparison to lab-scale polyol production from commercial anhydride, it can be assumed, that the polyols produced from CO-based anhydride and commercial anhydride do not differ. To distinguish the polyols, the commercial anhydride-based polyol is called polyol based on the new Carbon4PUR CO technology or in short Carbon4PUR polyol. The polyol produced from CO- based anhydride is called CO-based polyol. The purpose of this deliverable is to report on the outcomes of Task 5.3 on the processing of sample polyols at Recticel on pilot scale in order to prove the suitability of the Carbon4PUR polyol in rigid foam application. Polyols were tested to produce polyisocyanurate foams, also referred to as PIR foams, which are thermoset materials and used mainly as rigid thermal insulation. Before performing the large scale semi-industrial trials, many hand-mix trials were performed for initial screening of different polyols and to obtain crucial information about the behaviour of polyols during foaming reaction. Hand-mix trials are simple and straightforward tests that are performed in the laboratory in small scale, but they are essential to acquire an initial feeling about the performance of the tested raw material. As depicted in Figure 1a, polyol mixture containing other components of the formulation such as surfactant, catalyst, blowing agent etc. is mixed with the isocyanate in a container and the resulting mixture is vigorously mixed for a short period of time before it is poured into a wooden mold. The foam starts to rise immediately after and fills the mold to have the final shape as shown in Figure 1b. Therefore, during the first stage of the project, nine different polyols produced by Covestro were tested in hand-mix trials to assess the performance of the polyols at laboratory scale. The formulations were tested to optimize the concentration of Carbon4PUR polyol in the formulation and quantities of formulation components were fine tuned to be able to ha...
