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RENESENG -Renewable Systems Engineering: Project
Overview
Antonis C. KokossisNational Technical University of Athens
Kick-off meeting, Athens, 28 Nov. 2013
CONTEXT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
EU POLICY AND AIMS
• EU: well-positioned to spearhead 2nd generation bio economy– Sophisticated agricultural sector; – strong network of biochemical clusters– Strong commitment to GHG reduction– Dominant position in key technologies (enzymes,
biotechnology)• Competition: Brazil, USA, China• Niche: Competitors focused on biofuels and less on
other products
EXPECTATIONS IN EUROPE
Huge socio-economic benefits for 2020 (Bloomberg 2012) • Over 1,000 new biorefineries• Revenues in excess of €bn 32• Over 1 million new jobs
IMPORTANT ISSUES
• Capital requirements– Strong economies of scale: a facility twice the size may
cost 1.6 times more– Strong economies of learning: cost evolution expected
a strong downward slope– Synergies of co-location: significant scope to reduce
costs with parallel production of chemical and fuels• Further synergies– Integrate biochemical and thermochemical chains– Scope to build on existing facilities
THE ROAD AHEAD
• Scale up successful chemistries to pilots and plants• Build design expertise to improve material and energy
efficiencies• How? Develop technology to
– Support scale-up (costing, flowsheeting, screening)– Support modular bio refinery concept (regional diversifications)– Reduce experimentation with lab chemistries building
modeling and flowsheeting capabilities– Build process integration technologies– Build high-throughput capabilities due to the large number of
products and feedstocks
COSTING AND FLOWSHEETING
• Design technology from Chemical Industry– Often unreliable as bio refineries and essentially
different industries– Multiple feedstocks and unknown products (as against
fixed product/supplies in Oil & Gas)• Flowsheeting and modelling technology: missing– Important unit operation models– Multiple modelling layers (detailed vs conceptual)– Thermodynamic properties of intermediates and
products
INTEGRATION AND DIVERSFICIATION
• Important questions: supplies and products– Which feedstocks to use?– Which products or product portfolios?– Regional and market uncertainties– Co-location vs distributed production
• Important questions: technologies– Processing technologies to use?– Scope to combine technologies?– Scope to combine with existing installations?– Impact on anticipated improvements and technological
progress (technology uncertainty)?
RENESENG: Renewable systems engineeringA Marie Curie project to build systems engineering capabilities needed for the timely development of bio refineries
4-YEAR MARIE-CURIE PROJECT15 partners : 7 countries, 9 RI, 6 industial partners, 4 SMEs
EU contribution : 4 195 076 € Coordination : A. Kokossis
NTUACERTHHelector
DTU
SurreyImperial
BPFDLOTU Delft
ArkemaCIMV
EPFLQuantisETH
Bioenergy 2020+
RENESENG COMPETENCIES
• Research expertise: the leading groups in PSE and agricultural engineering• Expertise: process & property modelling, process integration and process
intensification, knowledge modelling, LCA tools and methods• Some of the most active industrial partners in the area
1. NTUAProcess synthesis, Optimization,
Process design, Modelling
2. EPFLProcess integration
Energy systems design and engineering Industrial ecology
3. ImperialMultiscale modelling techniques
Process and energy systemsengineering
4. DTUComputer aided method tools, Sustainableprocess, Network design, Multiscale modelling
5. CERTHImproved and integrated
exploitation of solid/alternative fuel and their by-products
6.UoSBiorefining Systems Approaches, Systems & Multiscale Modelling,
Knowledge Modelling
HELECTORMechanical BiologicalTreatment
Biomass reactor designBiomass pyrolysis/gasification reactors
8. CIMVBiorefining Technology
9. QUANTISLife cycle assessment
7. WURProduction of bio-energy,
biobased chemicals & sustainable industrial raw material
BE2020Sustainable biomass supply
chain concepts, Biomass fuel characterization, Biomass combustion technology
10. BPFLife Sciences and Materials
Sciences (alternative energy, bio-based materials, etc.)
11. ARKEMAVegetable oil Biorefineries, and
Economic Evaluation of Biorefinery units
TUDIndustrial biotechnology:
Fermentation, Biocatalysis, Downstream Processing
ETH Life cycle analysis/costing,
sustainableprocess design, earlydesign predictive modeling
ASSOCIATED PARTNERS
FULL PARTNERS
RENESENG APPROACH
• Deliverables: research and tools, training, dissemination – 4 core WPs packages that address fundamentals – 2 WPs in validation and software development– 2 WP on training, multi-center schools and workshops– 1 WP on dissemination, outreach activities, spin-offs
RESEARCH STRUCTURE
• Multi-disciplinary, multi-layered approach• Fundamental research
– Mathematical modelling and multi-scale applications– Process integration– Supply chains and synthesis– Life Cycle Analysis
Value chain networks, each composed of a number of plants and logistic subsystems
Individual processes, each producing one or several major final products or intermediate products, e.g. pyrolysis plant, gasification plant, bioethanolplant, etc..
Individual pieces of equipment, e.g. fermenter, gasifier, PBR, digester, etc.
Equipment compartments, e.g. CO2-spurging and light-supply sections in a PBR, liquid phase and gas phase in a digester, etc.
Levels of system decomposition Levels of modelling and decision making
Required model granularity
Fine
CoarseLevel 3: Screening
processing paths and designing value chain
networks
Level 2b: Designing integrated processes
Level 2a: Designing intensified equipment
Level 1: Modelling to prepare building blocks
for model-based decision making
LCAintegrated
network
Renewable engineering validation, evaluation, and on-site
training
Systems tools and software
PROJECT VISION
• Fill in gap on missing– Process engineering, process equipment models– Thermodynamic properties and LCA– Cost models and scale-up correlations
• New generation of tools– Process integration and synthesis– Tools that screen and scope for innovative designs
• Libraries of flowsheets and engineering data• Dedicated, user-friendly software to share with and
sell to the public
TRAINING OBJECTIVES• Multicenter PhD training program and long term
collaborations• Shape up an emerging engineering profile in bio
renewable systems engineering with – The active participation of industries– Strong multi-disciplinary capabilities
• Workforce to support sustainable processing technologies and– Deliver engineering solutions to new and complex
problems– Develop and use systems tools that promote innovation,
creative & holistic thinking
DISSEMINATION
• Create hub to share and trade knowledge– Link space for knowledge and information– Data and model sharing and exchange
• Create and support a platform to integrate applications in biorenewables– Integrate different applications, also with
commercial software (CAPE-OPEN)– Industrial validation – Prototype software for commercial use
KEY RENESENG FEATURESSupporting the creation of a new discipline
INDUSTRIALLY RELEVANT, INDUSTRIALLY VALIDATED MODELS
• Industrial expertise in: – lignocellulosic, oleochemical, water and waste biorefineries
• Capitalize on experience and produce reliable models in – Process unit operations (fermentation, gasification etc)– Substrates and phase equilibria
• Costing: reliable estimates of CAPEX, OPEX• Shortcut models for process units, cost and LCA
BUILDING HIGH-THROUGHPUT CAPACITY
• Stage-wise screening
• Analysis of uncertainties in technologies, feedstock supplies and products
HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION
• Integration of supplies– Agricultural residues, forestry hardwood,
macro and micro-algae– Common feedstocks, intermediates,
• Integration of chemical paths and supply chains– Integration of technologies and processing
paths– Consolidation of supplies to viable plant sizes
• Process integration– Process and energy integration– Process-to-process integration
MULTIPLE PRODUCTS, MODULARITY
• Differentiation with respect to – Regional priorities and access to supplies– Collocation opportunities– Capacity of supplies and targeted markets
SOFTWARE INTEGRATION, SHARING COMMUNITIES
• User-friendly environments to support decisions of policy makers
• Technology to search, link and automate the launch of integrated applications
• Open environments to share and integrate models (ontology engineering)
What is the Potential to Profit from Agricultural Residues in Reims?
WORKING TOGETHER TOWARDS A NEW SYSTEMS ENGINEERING BRANCH
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