Integrated Member
Adjunct Professor
| This project comprises the construction, test and optimized set-up of a system capable of generating fuel from renewable energy sources obtained from alkaline electrolysis of water using graphite electrodes without a membrane separating the generated gases. This project is the follow-up of preliminary studies undertaken at laboratory scale, which consisted in the proof of concept and also on the set-up of a 1 kW prototype producing a synthesis gas consisting mainly of H2 and CO2, from electrical power available from the grid in the night periods. This synthesis gas was also converted to CH4 in a tubular catalytic reactor, but can be also converted to other liquid fuels such as methanol or dimethylether. The present project aims to perform scale-up to a commercial unit of 50 kW, which can produce 2 m3/h of CH4, comprising also a viability and a technicaleconomic evaluation. |
