abb poster award 2014_facing climate change

Poster Dialogue Session at KTH Energy Dialogue 20 November 2014

CONTACT INFORMATION

Facing climate change:

100% renewable energy by 2050

Rodrigo Suárez París (1), Pouya Haghighi Moud (2), Klas Engvall, Magali Boutonnet

Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Contact information: (1) rosp@kth.se (2) pouyahm@kth.se

Biomass Agricultural and forest residues

Waste Municipal solid waste,

industrial waste

Carbon monoxide

Biofuels Biogas, renewable diesel and

gasoline, alcohols, DME

THE PROBLEM

European Union, targets 2020:

GHG emissions 20% lower than 1990

20% of energy from renewables

20% increase in energy efficiency

THE REALIZABLE SOLUTION

Second-generation biofuels via gasification + catalytic conversion

Hydrogen

GHG emissions growth has

accelerated despite reduction efforts

THE CHALLENGES

Gasifier

GASIFICATION

High-temperature treatment with oxygen or steam

CATALYTIC CONVERSION

Maximize production of the desired biofuel

Catalytic reactor

2G biofuels are obtained from non-food resources

Surface temperature is

expected to increase 4°C in the

21st century without mitigation

THE DRIVER

100% renewable energy by 2050 (WWF The Energy Report, 2011)

Financial and political support Technical development

Fundamental and

applied catalysis

Integration of efficient

processes into existing

industry infrastructure