STTR Phase II: Scalable Thermochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Commodity Chemical Intermediates

STTR 第二阶段：二氧化碳热化学转化为商品化学中间体的可扩展热化学转化

• 批准号: 2151560
• 负责人: Scott Campbell
• 金额: $ 95.15万
• 依托单位: CL CHEMICAL COMPANY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2151560&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; II; Scalable; Thermochemical

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project is to advance dynamic chemical reactor systems that repurposes waste gases (primarily carbon dioxide (CO2)) for use as fuels and as chemicals. This effort can have substantial commercial and market impacts as its output is compatible with existing infrastructure. This project leverages significant recent investments into carbon capture, renewable energy generation, and green hydrogen. A particularly interesting application of this technology is the production of chemical feedstocks that are used to make plastics and other commodity chemicals from living organisms. This is inherently a step towards carbon negative manufacturing. The proposed project aims to re-purpose pollutants to a feedstock for fuels and chemicals. Although renewable energy sources are increasing and becoming cheaper, these technologies are not ready for heavy-duty transportation and chemical sectors. No commercial scale operation is in existence in which CO2 is captured from the air or flue gas and converted to value-added fuels despite much fundamental research effort. The research objectives are to scale up the materials and system from the Phase I results and conduct a design and analysis of a full-scale system. The main advance is to achieve dynamic chemical reactor modules that achieve high reactant conversions. These results will permit analysis of a pilot-scale facility as well as translation of the benefits of this sustainable chemical reaction toward industrial scale production of clean and green hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该小型企业技术转让 (STTR) 第二阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是推进动态化学反应器系统，将废气（主要是二氧化碳 (CO2)）重新利用为燃料和化学品。这项工作可能会产生重大的商业和市场影响，因为其输出与现有基础设施兼容。该项目利用了近期对碳捕获、可再生能源发电和绿色氢能的大量投资。这项技术的一个特别有趣的应用是生产化学原料，用于从生物体中制造塑料和其他商品化学品。 这本质上是迈向负碳制造的一步。拟议项目旨在将污染物重新利用为燃料和化学品的原料。尽管可再生能源正在增加且变得更便宜，但这些技术尚未为重型运输和化学行业做好准备。尽管进行了大量的基础研究工作，但尚不存在从空气或烟道气中捕获二氧化碳并将其转化为增值燃料的商业规模运营。研究目标是扩大第一阶段成果的材料和系统，并对全尺寸系统进行设计和分析。主要进展是实现动态化学反应器模块，从而实现高反应物转化率。这些结果将允许对中试规模的设施进行分析，并将这种可持续化学反应的好处转化为清洁和绿色碳氢化合物燃料和化学品的工业规模生产。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。