I-Corps: Low-Carbon Chemical and Fuel Production Through the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2

美国的工业继续向大气中排放数百万二氧化碳。该团队的目标是开发一种模块化、低资本支出的反应堆，将二氧化碳转化为与传统产品相比具有成本竞争力的有价值的燃料和化学品。在斯坦福大学，NSF资助的研究生工作展示了将二氧化碳(ECO2R)电化学还原为16种不同的燃料和化学品。排名前八的产品代表了全球近4000亿美元的市场规模。一台ECO2R装置可以连接到任何现有的工业二氧化碳排放源，只需水和电作为输入，就可以在现场将二氧化碳转化为一些世界上产量最大的化学产品-S。该项目的目标是识别和验证客户、关键合作伙伴、渠道和收入来源，该团队将把拟议的技术推向市场。该团队计划采访各种二氧化碳排放者，如玉米乙醇工厂、钢铁制造商和炼油厂。该团队将首先瞄准液体燃料，特别是乙醇，因为它在一个巨大的初始目标市场中确定了一个强大的价值主张，乙醇的技术可行性很高，并且与传统的乙醇生产相比，ECO2R的经济性令人信服

Industries in America continue to throw away millions of CO2 into the atmosphere. This team aims to develop a modular, low-capex reactor that converts CO2 into valuable fuels and chemicals that are cost-competitive with conventional products. At Stanford, the NSF-funded graduate work demonstrated electrochemical reduction of CO2 (ECO2R) into 16 different fuels and chemicals. The top eight products represent nearly $400 billion in global market size. An ECO2R device could bolt onto any existing source of industrial CO2 emissions, and with only water and electricity as inputs, transform CO2 onsite into some of the world?s highest-volume chemical products.The goals of this project are to identify and validate the customers, key partners, channels and revenue streams the team would need to take the proposed technology to market. The team plans to interview various CO2 emitters such as corn ethanol plants, steel manufacturers and oil refineries. The team will target liquid fuels initially, specifically ethanol, because it has identified a strong value proposition in a large initial target market, the technological feasibility for ethanol is high, and the economics for ECO2R are compelling relative to conventional ethanol manufacture