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

I-Corps：通过电化学还原二氧化碳生产低碳化学品和燃料

• 批准号: 1565456
• 负责人: Etosha Cave
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-11-01 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1565456&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Low; Carbon; Chemical; Fuel

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

美国的工业继续向大气中排放数百万的二氧化碳。 该团队的目标是开发一种模块化、低资本支出的反应器，将二氧化碳转化为有价值的燃料和化学品，这些燃料和化学品与传统产品相比具有成本竞争力。在斯坦福大学，NSF资助的研究生工作展示了电化学还原二氧化碳（ECO2R）成16种不同的燃料和化学品。前八名产品代表了近4000亿美元的全球市场规模。一个ECO2R设备可以连接到任何现有的工业二氧化碳排放源上，只需要水和电作为输入，就可以将二氧化碳就地转化为世界上的一些二氧化碳。该项目的目标是确定和验证客户、关键合作伙伴、渠道和收入流，团队需要将拟议的技术推向市场。 该小组计划采访各种二氧化碳排放者，如玉米乙醇厂、钢铁制造商和炼油厂。该团队最初将以液体燃料为目标，特别是乙醇，因为它已经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，并且相对于传统的乙醇制造，ECO2R的经济性很强