abb poster award 2014_facing climate change
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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) [email protected] (2) [email protected]
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