Green Deployment of E-fuels and Liquids based on CO2 for closed and end-of-life coal-related assets
Project concept
The rapid coal phase-out strategy puts the European coal-fired plants under pressure. This not only produces stranded assets but also necessitates alternative energy supply.
The GreenDEALCO2 project proposes re-orienting and re-purposing end-of-life and closed coal power plants. The draft beyond illustrates the major objectives and makes it easier to understand the connection and interaction of the sectors.
With the project concepts will be developed by combining coal-related assets with E-fuel production to improve the economics of the power-to-fuel technology through synergy and the use of stranded and available assets. The production of sustainable E-fuels at coal-related assets is realized through green H2 and partly or fully green CO2 streams. Within the process configuration CO2 is related to one of the following sources:
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CO2 from an end-of-life coal power plant that will be retrofitted to biomass such as high-quality biomass, residual biomass and waste-derived fuels or gaseous fuel of SNG and H2
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CO2 from nearby waste-to-energy plants with partly biogenic waste and
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CO2 from a nearby industrial plant
The site of the closed or retrofitted coal power plant will be integrated with a power-to-fuel production plant. For this purpose the boundary conditions of actual power plants from the utility operators of the consortium, located in Greece, Germany and Austria will be considered, so the case studies investigated will have realistic deployment prospects.
Furthermore the project aims to promote investments into E-fuels by performing sustainability analysis and a pilot certification on the whole supply chain of E-fuel production in retrofitted and closed coal power plants.
Workpackages with timeline
As shown in the draft bellow the project is structured in three main categories of case studies and technology development, framework and analysis and management and dissemination of results. The research activities are divided into six work packages. Click on the work package to get more information.
Timeline
The runtime of the project are 3 years. The work packages outlined above are managed by different partners from the consortium. The following timeline gives an overview of the workflow with the respective processing time.
Workpackage 1
Workpackage 2
Workpackage 3
Workpackage 4
Workpackage 5
Workpackage 6
Start
End
term: 30 months; managed by PPC
term: 15 months; managed by vgbe
term: 33 months; managed by MUL
term: 18 months; managed by NTUA
term: 30 months; managed by MCS
term: 36 months; managed by USTUTT
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