SBIR Phase I: Onsite production of CO from carbon dioxide using modified PEM Electolyzers

SBIR 第一阶段：使用改进的 PEM 电解器从二氧化碳现场生产 CO

• 批准号: 1622160
• 负责人: Etosha Cave
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Opus 12 Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1622160&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Onsite; production; CO

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is aimed at developing a new CO2 utilization technology to recycle carbon dioxide back into fuels and chemicals. By utilizing CO2 as a feedstock instead of fossil fuels, this technology could reduce U.S. industry?s dependence on imported energy and reduce the nation?s greenhouse gas emissions. By commercializing the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, revenue could be generated from industrial emissions, which are currently discarded as waste. This project could lead to the generation of new U.S. advanced manufacturing jobs in order to build electrolysis equipment. The initial application of the technology is the production of carbon monoxide from CO2. Carbon monoxide is a valuable synthesis gas for producing specialty chemicals, and at the large scale, it can be used to synthesize transportation fuels. By scaling up electrochemical CO2 reduction technology, the commercialization of the project innovation would broadly promote CO2 utilization and decrease the nation?s total CO2 emissions from industry. The key barrier to the widespread deployment of electrochemical carbon dioxide utilization technology has been the lack of an electrolyzer design capable CO2 reduction with high production rates and high energy efficiency. This project will use a novel reactor design to carry out the conversion of CO2 to CO. The specific reactor design in this project has high energy efficiency and high reaction rates necessary to make the process of CO2 utilization cost competitive. There are other advantages to the proposed electrolyzer design: years of optimization have lowered capital costs, and it is modular and scalable. By utilizing an existing reactor design, it will be possible to scale CO2 conversion quickly to reach larger markets and decrease emissions through the use of CO2. The goal of this project is to prove the feasibility of cost-competitive CO2 reduction in the proposed reactor design. Rapid iteration and testing will be used to determine whether key performance indicators can be achieved.

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目的目标是开发一种新的二氧化碳利用技术，将二氧化碳回收到燃料和化学品中。通过利用二氧化碳代替化石燃料作为原料，这项技术可以减少美国工业S对进口能源的依赖，减少美国S的温室气体排放。通过将二氧化碳的电化学还原商业化，可以从工业排放中获得收入，这些排放目前被作为废物丢弃。该项目可能会产生新的美国先进制造业工作岗位，以制造电解设备。这项技术的最初应用是从二氧化碳中生产一氧化碳。一氧化碳是一种生产特种化学品的有价值的合成气，可大规模用于合成运输燃料。通过扩大电化学二氧化碳减排技术的规模，该项目创新的商业化将广泛促进二氧化碳的利用，并减少国家-S工业的二氧化碳排放总量。广泛应用电化学二氧化碳利用技术的关键障碍是缺乏能够高产率和高能源效率地减少二氧化碳排放的电解槽设计。该项目将使用一种新型的反应器设计来实现二氧化碳转化为CO。该项目中的特定反应器设计具有高能效和高反应速率，这是使二氧化碳利用过程具有成本竞争力所必需的。拟议的电解槽设计还有其他优势：多年的优化降低了资本成本，而且它是模块化的和可扩展的。通过利用现有的反应堆设计，将有可能快速扩大二氧化碳转化规模，以进入更大的市场，并通过使用二氧化碳来减少排放。该项目的目标是证明在拟议的反应堆设计中以具有成本竞争力的二氧化碳减排的可行性。将使用快速迭代和测试来确定关键绩效指标是否能够实现。