Electrically heated catalytic reforming reactors - eQATOR

生产过程电气化和使用可再生资源生产化学品可以对气候变化产生巨大影响。沼气是一种特别有吸引力的可再生碳源，用于分散式化学品生产，因为其目前的巨大生产能力和增长机会。同时，甲醇是一种重要的基础化学品，市场规模巨大且不断增长，目前主要由化石资源生产。在这种情况下，eQATOR旨在在工业相关环境（TRL 6）中展示可扩展的电加热催化反应器技术，与最先进的技术相比，该技术将沼气转化为合成气的效率提高，将沼气生产与下游转化技术连接起来，转化为更高附加值的产品，如甲醇，燃料和氢气。eQATOR的核心创新是催化剂和反应器的集成开发，以及两种不同但互补的电加热技术，即电阻加热和微波加热，从而为合成气生产带来了颠覆性的电加热反应器技术。eQATOR将有助于将合成气生产从带有燃烧器的大容量反应器转变为可再生的加热和紧凑型反应器（总反应器单元的尺寸减少高达90%，催化剂体积减少50-75%），从而从过程强化中获得显著优势。eQATOR技术的实施将使合成气生产的生命周期二氧化碳排放量减少60-80%，并从2030年的700万吨二氧化碳/年减少到2045年的4500万吨二氧化碳/年。试验性开发得到了广泛的综合可持续性评估的支持，包括技术经济可行性、环境足迹以及对社会和农村发展的影响。eQATOR联盟提供沿着整个价值链的补充性世界级专业知识和强有力的工业承诺，以通过工业实施最大限度地广泛利用成果。

Process electrification and use of renewable resources for the production of chemicals can have a huge impact on climate change. Biogas is a particularly attractive renewable carbon source for decentralized production of chemicals due to its huge current production capacity and opportunities for growth. In parallel, methanol is an important base chemical with a huge and growing market size, produced mainly from fossil resources today. In this context, eQATOR aims to demonstrate in an industrially relevant environment (TRL6) scalable, electrically heated catalytic reactor technologies that will allow conversion of biogas into syngas with improved efficiency compared to the state-of-art, bridging biogas production with downstream conversion technology into higher-added value products such as methanol, fuels and hydrogen. The central innovation in eQATOR is the integrated development of catalysts and reactors, and two different, yet complementary, electric heating technologies, resistive and microwave heating, leading to disruptive electrically heated reactor technologies for syngas production. eQATOR will help transform syngas production from large-volume reactors with fired burners to renewable heated and compact reactors (up to 90% size reduction of total reactor unit and 50-75% reduction in catalyst volume), providing significant benefits from process intensification. Implementation of eQATOR technology will decrease life-cycle CO2 emissions for syngas production by 60-80% and save from 7 Mt CO2/year in 2030, up to around 45 Mt CO2/year in 2045. The experimental development is supported by a broad integrated sustainability assessment including techno-economic feasibility, environmental footprint and impact on society and rural development. The eQATOR consortium provides complementary world class expertise along the entire value chain and strong industrial commitment to maximize wide exploitation of the results through industrial implementation.