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

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目旨在开发一种新的二氧化碳利用技术，将二氧化碳回收利用到燃料和化学品中。通过使用二氧化碳作为原料而不是化石燃料，这项技术可以减少美国工业？减少美国对进口能源的依赖？美国的温室气体排放。通过将二氧化碳的电化学减少商业化，可以从目前作为废物丢弃的工业排放中产生收入。这个项目可以为美国创造新的先进制造业就业机会，以制造电解设备。该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殊化学品的有价值的合成气，在大规模上，它可以用来合成运输燃料。通过扩大电化学CO2还原技术的规模，项目创新的商业化将广泛促进CO2的利用，减少国家？5 .工业二氧化碳排放总量。电化学二氧化碳利用技术广泛应用的主要障碍是缺乏一种能够以高生产率和高能效减少二氧化碳的电解槽设计。本项目将采用一种新型反应器设计来进行CO2到CO的转化。本项目中具体的反应器设计具有高能效和高反应速率，使CO2利用过程具有成本竞争力。提出的电解槽设计还有其他优点：多年的优化降低了资本成本，并且它是模块化和可扩展的。通过利用现有的反应器设计，将有可能迅速扩大二氧化碳转化规模，以达到更大的市场，并通过使用二氧化碳减少排放。该项目的目标是证明在拟议的反应堆设计中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是否可以实现关键性能指标。

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.