Carbon2Chem®

Commercial potential and methanol production

17th July 2018 | Dr. Wiebke Lüke
 Ambitious political goals for greenhouse gas reduction requires different approaches

GHG emissions Post 2050

of the EU 28 Greenhouse Gas Neutrality

5,6 billion t. CO2eq

efficiency activities emissions sinks

BUT: Greenhouse gas neutrality does not mean abandonment of carbon

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 Overview CO2 emissions by sectors, example Germany

Energy sector: 343 Mt  -26 %

Industry: 188 Mt  -34 %
Transport: 166 Mt  +1,8 %
Buildings: 127 Mt  -39 %
Agriculture: 71 Mt  -21 %
Other: 11 Mt  -71 %

(2016 in Germany in Mt CO2 equivalents and development since 1990)

UBA (2017)
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 Carbon Capture and Use (CCU) can support reduction of CO2 emissions
CO2 emissions can be reduced by CDA or CCS, but only within one industry sector!

N2
CDA and CCS

N2
CO2
• have the potential to reduce CO2
NO CO2 emissions within one sector only
NO
CO2
H2
• are not applicable to
CO2 CO CO CH4 decentralized CO2 sources
• are limited by social acceptance
• have a very heterogenic TRL
level
• increase process efficiency and
not overall system efficiency
• consider CO2 as a waste and not
as a raw material

CCS, CDA

Steel Chemistry Energy Transport

CO2 emissions
37 Mt 18 Mt 343 Mt 166 Mt (2016 in Germany in Mt CO2 equivalents)
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 Large amounts of steel mill gas have to be treated

~300.000 m³ Gas

Daily amount of top gas:

2 Mio. Nm3 top

gases per hour

N2 43 %
CO 25 %
CO2 21 %
H2 8%
CH4 2%
Ar < 0,1 %
Blast furnance Coke oven Steel mill
other < 0,1 %

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 Carbon2Chem® is a cross industrial approach and enters a circular economy

CO2

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 Carbon2Chem®: Carbon Capture and Use of CO2 in the cross industrial network

CCU
• reduces CO2 emissions via a
17 billion Nm³ top gas per year cross industrial network
• provides commercial advantage
through multi product output
(steel and chemical products)
• increases overall system
H2
efficiency

Hüttengas • holds a high CO2 reduction

potential accumulated over all
industry sectors
• bares already a very high TRL
level, but limited experience
within a cross industrial network

Steel Energy Chemistry CCU

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 Carbon2Chem®: Products and procedures

Synthetic fuels

CCU Polymers
Top gas Carbon capture
and usage

Fertilizer
Integrated steel production CO2 capture / gas cleaning / conditioning

L3 – Gas Cleaning

L2 – Methanol production
L4 – Higher alcohols
L1 – Water electrolysis
L5 – Polymers
L6 – Oxymehtylenether

L0 – System integration / business model development / plant network control

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 Methanol production from top gases compared with reference case CO2
CCU CCS or CDA BAU reference
Lowest total CO2 emissions Significant reduction against BAU Business as usual reference for steel
reference and methanol production

2.993

Emissions for Reference emissions for

730 kg methanol 730 kg methanol 1.117

1.876 1.876
1.617
823
500
1.053 1.117
Depends on
Depends on
technology
technology

Baseline CO2 in CO2 CO2 in methanol Remaining CO2 Baseline steel CO2 in methanol CO2 for steel
steel methanol emissions stand alone CO2 emissions emissions stand alone & methanol
from steel
Assumptions
• 60 % utilization of top gases from steel production; from these 60 % top gases approx. 730 kg methanol can be produced taking into account all process related emissions for the chemical synthesis
In kg CO2 / t CS
• For the methanol reference process 1490 kg CO2 /t Methanol were assumed
• Process efficiencies are strongly depending on given process setup
• Figures from Dechema study „Low carbon energy and feedstock for the European chemical industry“, 2017

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 Carbon2Chem®: Pilot plant is in full operation since April 2018
2 MW water electrolysis Gas cleaning

Completion: April 2018 Completion: April 2018

Capacity: 440 Nm³/h H2 Capacity:
Manufacturer: tk UCE coke oven gas 100 Nm³/h
converter gas 70 Nm³/h
blast furnace gas 70 Nm³/h
Manufacturer: tk IS

• Generation of additionally required H2 for chemical syntheses
from renewable energies → H2 with no additional CO2-footprint
• Proof of operation with volatile energy supply
• Development of systemic solutions for energy storage
• Purification and conditioning of the metallurgical gases for the
subsequent chemical syntheses
• Validation of operating strategies for the purification of the
different metallurgical gases
• Evaluation of various concepts for plant configuration for new
subsequent chemical syntheses

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 Carbon2Chem®: Targets

We use the carbon from metallurgic gases as a starting material for

chemical products and enter a circular economy

We reduce the overall CO2 emissions in the cross industrial network

We use renewable energies in a cross industrial network for more than one
product

We provide an essential contribution to climate protection and the

“Energiewende”

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 engineering.
tomorrow.
together.

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