Save the date: 17-18 April 2024, Maternushaus, Cologne (Germany)
“Best CO₂ Utilisation 2023” Innovation Award – Three winning CCU solutions open the road to transition away from fossil resources
“Best CO₂ Utilisation 2023” innovation award nominees. From left to right Floris Buijzen (Borealis), Laurent Vandepaer (on), Babette Pettersen (Lanzatech), Martin Lindmeyer (Yncoris), Marc Philipp Vocht (DITF), Thomas Mairegger (Rohrdorfer), Michael Carus (nova-Institut), Asta Partanen (nova-Institut), Anastasios Perimenis (CO₂ Value Europe), on screen Michael Mitsiakos (Arkeon)
Innovation Award
All three winners have been elected by the participants!
“Steel and Chemicals, the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
Wim Van der StrichtArcelorMittal (BE)
“An explanation how to increase circularity by the conversion of CO2 from waste streams to formic acid within the WaterProof project.”
Sophie van VreeswijkAvantium (NL)
“Borealis will present our developments and developed applications in the field of carbon circularity with a focus on using renewable feedstocks (including atmospheric CO2) to produce sustainable polyolefins.”
Floris BuijzenBorealis (AT)
“Bringing together the CCU community to develop a Roadmap establishing the role of CCU in the transition to a sustainable circular economy”
Anastasios PerimenisCO2 Value Europe (BE)
“The current status of CO2 containing polyols and their application to produce sustainable polyurethane materials.”
Liz ManningEconic Technologies (UK)
“We describe and analyze a novel approach to capture CO2 from the atmosphere using solar energy.”
Enric Prats-SalvadoDeutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) (DE)
“In this presentation, we first evaluate the potential for cost reductions in direct air capture and then assess the needs and barriers this technology faces when used either as a method for carbon removal or for CO2 utilization, such as for the production of synthetic fuels and chemicals.”
Nicoletta Brazzola and Katrin SievertETH Zurich (CH)
“The direct synthesis of ethanol from CO2 is an important element for a sustainable future.”
Verena SüßFraunhofer ICT (DE)
“We need to think about new ways to combine technologies to leverage the whole potential of CO2-utilization.”
Christine RascheFraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (DE)
“Accelerating the transition to a decarbonized and defossilized future in industrial production through the development of a stacked electrolysis system for the electrochemical conversion of CO2 into essential chemicals and fuels.”
Mohammad RezaeiGIG Karasek (AT)
“IFPEN is now developing a CO2 conversion process into syngas using reversed water gas shift process, allowing a global integration of proprietary processes from CO2 capture to synthetic paraffinic fuels production.”
Catherine LarocheIFPEN (FR)
“Sustainable carbon is a (at the moment) limited resource that must be carefully developed and monitored, especially with its crucial role in sustainable scenarios for hard-to-abate sectors such as aviation.”
Maartje FeenstraInstitute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (AU)
“LanzaTech has developed a comprehensive synthetic biology capability for gas fermenting bacteria for the direct production of over 100 alternative chemical outputs using a gas fermentation process, including Isopropyl alcohol (IPA), Monoethylene Glycol (MEG), Acetone and most recently, Ethylene, from carbon captured from industrial emissions.”
Babette PettersenLanzaTech (US)
“Construction of one of the world’s first commercial E-fuels plants.”
Gunnar Holen Nordic Electrofuel (NO)
“I will speak about Phytonix and Cyanomega technologies for carbon dioxide utilization via photosynthetic conversion to higher alcohols and fatty acids to address the climate crises and create a circular carbon economy.”
Bruce DannenbergPhytonix (US)
“Promethean Particles presents the scalable and cost-effective manufacture of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs), a novel class of solid sorbent which can allow energy-efficient carbon capture at industrial scale for utilisation and storage.”
Selina AmbrosePromethean Particles (UK)
“This presentation will explain thermoplastic polyurethanes and their processing into elastic yarns as a potential example of successful CCU in the textile world.”
Jan ThielRWTH Aachen (DE)
“We are jointly developing with Blue Planet an innovative process to capture and permanently lock CO2 in carbon-negative concrete to address one hard-to-abate emitter and take us one step closer to the net-zero target.”
Cecilia MondelliSulzer Chemtech (CH)
“Several process intensification strategies can be applied to electrochemical-based technologies in order to increase the overall performance of CO2 conversion processes, as well as the economic profitability of the complete system.“
Elena Perez-GallentTNO (NL)
“Nicholas will share Twelve’s latest updates on its novel carbon transformation technology and applications.”
Nicholas FlandersTwelve (US)
“Potential for market volume, CO2 utilization amount, and product lifetime that is categorized in two simple tracks will help build the CCU industry.”
Volker SickUniversity of Michigan (US)
“We produced a range of polyhydroxybutyrate/valerate (PHB/V) biopolymers on methanol and performed a first extensive characterization.”
Heleen De WeverVITO (BE)
“Electrochemical conversion of CO2 provides a rapid and efficient approach to convert CO2 into C1 products such as carbon monoxide and formic acid which can be then further converted to C2-C6 compounds using microbial and/or enzymatic routes.”
Deepak PantVITO (BE)
How will this move forward?
CCU is one essential pillar for the supply of renewable carbon besides biomass and recycling and therefore one of the key technologies for the transition to sustainable chemical and fuel production and to substitute fossil feedstock sources, to fight climate change and to shift towards climate-friendly production and consumption. For providing the full benefits of CCU technologies the use of renewable energy and hydrogen is indispensable and a crucial for the production of CO2-based transportation and aviation fuels, bulk and fine chemicals. At our conference you will get the chance to meet pioneers and forerunners together with stakeholders from big companies, Start-Ups and research. The first day will focus on green hydrogen production, carbon capture and CO2-based transport and aviation fuels, the second especially on mineralisation and CO2-based bulk and fine chemicals. CCU technologies are essential to meet the future demand for carbon from renewable sources. Take a look into the near future and exchange ideas with the leading pioneers.
In our last edition we heard that already big installations are in place in China to produce CO2-based ethanol using emissions from the steel industry – and aiming to increase. Other industrial actors are planning to build large methanol plants in the Netherlands and Germany that use CO2 from waste incineration or industrial point sources and others are planning on erecting corresponding plants based on large-scale solar thermal power plants in Tunisia. Various plants for the production of aviation fuel are about to start construction, e.g. in France and in Norway. Methanol can be used directly to fuel container ships in particular, which so far usually run on heavy fuel oil. The production of e-kerosene is mainly stimulated by a coming quota: According to the ReFuel Aviation EU proposal, by 2030, 5 % of kerosene demand in the European Union would have to be met by sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), of which a minimum share of 0.7 % of synthetic aviation fuels. By 2035, the mandate is supposed to increase to 20 % SAF with a sub-quota of 5 % minimum of synthetic fuels. Additionally, a large number of European cross-sectoral projects for hydrogen production via large-scale electrolysers have been announced or are already in construction and also the recent discussions in Canada on green hydrogen are showing the future needs.
Great visions are becoming real business cases and innovations are starting to realise their potential!
New and leading players will demonstate novel and improved applications based on the use of CO2 as feedstock. Main topics of the conference are green hydrogen production, carbon capture technologies and carbon utilisation (Power-to-X): Transportation and aviation fuels, building-blocks, bulk and fine chemicals as well as advanced technologies for CO2 utilisation such as artificial photosynthesis.
The nova “Conference on CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals” is one of the most established worldwide and has developed into a unique meeting and networking place for the entire Carbon Capture & Utilisation (CCU) and Power-to-X industry and its customers. The upcoming 11th edition of this conference again will continue with this success and will showcase again the newest and most important developments in the fast growing field of CO2 capture and utilisation.
