per Fornitura di energia pulita (Sistema di produzione di energia)
Biomassa (Colture energetiche)
Produzione di biocarburanti liquidi
other biofuels
Energia meccanica
Applicazioni mobili
Agricoltura in pieno campo
Contadino, Industria
Veicoli
Trattori a biodiesel/PPO
Soluzione completa
Acronimo del progetto: MacroFuels
Tipo di finanziamento del progetto: EU
Fonte di finanziamento del progetto: H2020
Coordinatore del progetto: TEKNOLOGISK INSTITUT (prof. Anne-Belinda Bjerre)
Posizione del coordinatore: Danimarca
Email del coordinatore / Modulo di contatto: anbj@teknologisk.dk
Status del progetto: Finito
Budget totale: 5999892.5
"Increasing the biomass supply by developing a rotating crop scheme for cultivation of seaweed, using native, highly productive brown, red and green seaweeds. Combined with the use of advanced textile substrates these breakthroughs will result in a year round biomass yield of 25 kg seaweeds (wet weight) per m2 per year harvested at 1000m2/hr;
• Improving the pre-treatment and storage of seaweed and to yield fermentable and convertible sugars at economically relevant concentrations (10-30%);
• Increasing the bio-ethanol production to economically viable concentrations of > 4%/l and;
• Increasing the bio-butanol yield to 15 g./l by developing novel fermenting organisms which metabolize all sugars at 90% efficiency for ethanol and butanol;
• Increasing the biogas yield to convert 90% of the available carbon in the residues by adapting the organisms to seaweed;
• Developing the thermochemical conversion of sugars to fuels from the mg. scale to the kg. scale;
• Performing an integral techno-economic, sustainability and risk assessment of the entire seaweed to biofuel chain."
Realistically, seaweed-derived biofuels could be available in the market earliest by 2030. The MacroFuels’ produced fuels (vide supra) were tested with a stationary engine as well as road tests. Bioethanol and biobutanol were used as 10% blends (cf. E95). The furanic fuel was used as 5% blend with diesel as reference. All the blends performed well in both stationary engine test and realistic road test, with emissions lower than acceptable limits.