Power-to-gas via microbial electrosynthesis of methane from biogenic CO2

通过生物二氧化碳微生物电合成甲烷实现电力转化为天然气

基本信息

批准号：
10043359
负责人：
金额：
$ 6.37万
依托单位：
EFUELS TECHNOLOGIES LTD
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Grant for R&D
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10043359
关键词：
Power gas via microbial electrosynthesis

项目摘要

The UK Government has committed to decarbonising the electricity system by 2035\. To ensure this ambition becomes a reality, we need to double down on efforts to deploy a reliable and resilient infrastructure for long-term energy storage. Efuels Technologies Ltd is developing a novel power-to-methane technology to store renewable electricity within the existing natural gas infrastructure. Incumbent technologies are integrated multi-step processes. They are expensive and have poor conversion efficiencies and energy losses. Our solution leverages the scientific principles of microbial electrosynthesis to produce synthetic methane in one single step, and therefore at a fraction of the costs of Incumbent solutions.The Fast Start innovation funding will allow the company to build evidence of market validation and a bench-scale prototype for the technology. The project will take place in the Energy Laboratory of the University of Surrey and the funding will be spent on staffing, materials, and consumables. If the technology is successfully upscaled, generators and aggregators could use curtailed electricity to convert biogenic CO2 into methane and profit from selling services within the Balancing Energy Market. The biogenic CO2 can be obtained from biogas (50-40% CO2). The technology could create a unique bi-directional link between the electricity and gas industry, which could help market participants maximise the value of their assets with a higher degree of flexibility.

英国政府已承诺在2035年之前脱碳。为了确保这种野心成为现实，我们需要加倍努力，以部署可靠且具有弹性的基础设施来长期存储。 Efuels Technologies Ltd正在开发一种新型的力量对甲烷技术，可在现有的天然气基础设施中存储可再生电力。现有技术是集成的多步骤过程。它们价格昂贵，转化效率和能源损失差。我们的解决方案利用微生物电气合成的科学原理在一个步骤中产生合成甲烷，因此在现有解决方案的成本的一小部分中生产合成的甲烷。快速启动创新资金将使公司能够建立市场验证的证据和该技术的基准规模原型。该项目将在萨里大学的能源实验室进行，资金将用于人员配备，材料和消耗品。如果该技术成功地进行了扫描，则发电机和聚合器可以使用限制的电力将生物二氧化碳转化为甲烷，并从平衡能源市场中销售服务中获利。可以从沼气（50-40％CO2）获得生物二氧化碳。该技术可以在电力和天然气行业之间建立独特的双向联系，这可以帮助市场参与者以更高的灵活性最大化其资产的价值。