ELectrochemical OXidation of cYclic and biogenic substrates for high efficiency production of organic CHEMicals (ELOXYCHEM)

XYXYCHEM将建立一个商业相关的电化学氧化工艺，这将成为一个战略发展，以取代现有的化学转化工艺，这些工艺严重依赖进口材料，如硝酸和进口化石燃料，如天然气。XYXYCHEM将通过展示以下内容为欧洲的双重转型（绿色和数字化）提供可靠的途径：（i）中试规模（每年数吨）的新型转型电化学转化平台工艺，包括反应器和下游分离，最终产品具有可销售的规格，以可靠地达到TRL 6;（ii）用于化学转化的直接替代技术。XYXYCHEM还将优化该工艺，以证明该工艺对多种原料的多功能性，包括当前的原料和未来的生物基和生物源。使用人工智能策略进行优化，试点工厂将有针对性地改善电化学性能，提高寿命并降低成本;考虑到可再生能源的可再生性和提供需求响应灵活性的潜力，证明与可再生能源整合的可行性;从过程强化和成本角度整合工艺设计，包括材料，反应器/电池和分离方法。XXYCHEM汇集了一个由来自欧洲各地的化学/散装材料生产商，制造商和大学组成的世界领先的财团，以解决预期的结果，并实现与现有工艺相比节省约60%的能耗，XXYCHEM的颠覆性方法将帮助化学工业改变其生产工艺，以减少浪费，使用有害的前体化学品，并降低能源密集度。

ELOXYCHEM will establish a commercially relevant electrochemical oxidation process that will become a strategic development to replace existing chemical conversion processes that are heavily reliant on imported materials such as nitric acid and imported fossil-fuels such as natural gas. ELOXYCHEM will promote a credible pathway for Europe’s twin transition (green and digital) by demonstrating: (i) a new transformational electrochemical conversion platform process at a pilot scale (multiple tonnes per annum) consisting of reactors and downstream separation to final products with marketable specification to reliably achieve TRL6; (ii)drop-in replacement technology for chemical conversion. ELOXYCHEM will also optimise the process to demonstrate versatility of the process to multiple feedstocks ranging from current feedstocks and future bio-based and biogenic sources. Using AI strategies for optimisation the pilot plant will be targeted improve electrochemical performance, improve lifetime and reduce cost; prove viability of integrating with renewable energy sources considering intermittency and potential to offer demand-response flexibility; integrate process design, including materials, reactor/cell, and separation methods, from the process intensification and cost perspectives. ELOXYCHEM brings together a world leading consortium consisting of chemical/bulk material producers, manufacturers, and universities from across Europe to addresses the expected outcomes and achieve energy consumption savings of ~60% compared with existing processes, ELOXYCHEM´s disruptive approach will help chemical industries transform their production process to reduce waste, use of harmful precursor chemicals, and become less energy intensive.