Blue Bird
report
‘Blue Bird - Concomitant generation of energy and chemicals from biomass waste streams’ (5.4111) is a 2-year TKI innovation project financed by RVO (reference TEBE 115001) in which a number of technologies have been developed for the recovery of valuable compounds (BTX, ethylene) from gasification product gas in co-production schemes. The implementation of co-production allows the reduction of the production cost of bio-SNG by harvesting valuable compounds. Moreover, the production cost can be further reduced if low-cost biomass residues are used as feedstock (as the humins considered in this project). The co-production technologies studied include liquid absorption for bio-BTX harvesting, adsorption for the capture of bio-ethylene, and catalytic conversion of ethylene to aromatics (reactive separation). Moreover, the thermochemical valorization of humins (a by-product from Avantium’s YXY biorefinery process for sugar conversion into chemicals) has also been assessed in this project. The research and development work was complemented with a market analysis and environmental impact assessment (LCA). This report summarizes the main achievements of the project.
TNO Identifier
823559
Publisher
ECN
Collation
79 p.
Place of publication
Petten
Pages
79 p.
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