CO2 capture and exploitation for the sustainable production of value-added chemicals through 3 microbial factories (lactic acid, acetone and PHA production), integrated within a waste treatment platform. These new microbial factories (MFs) are able to use sunlight and H2 to transform CO2 into chemicals and are modified to increase CO2 capture and conversion ability. The project includes 3 phases: 1) R&D development i.e. improvement CO2 capture and conversion ability, 2) Development of a new PEM electrolyser for H2 production and integration with MF2 and MF3, 3) Design validation sites, experimental campaign and the feedstocks, services distribution lines deployment and develop protocols to extract organic substrates from the AD digestate utilized as complementary carbon substrates for the MFs.

Poroject Lead: Fondazione istituto italiano di tecnologia

Region: Europe

Country: Italy

Timeline Start - End: 2018-01-01 - 2022-06-30

Project Status: Completed

Project Budget: 6986910.0 €

Funding source: 100% H2020

Website: https://www.engicoin.eu/

Activities:

- Research (CCU)

- CCU

CO2 Source: Biogas combustion flue gas (Depending on the process, possibly also additional carbon derived from the AD digestate)

CCU Tecnology Category: Utilization

Info On Utilization:

- Biological conversion

Facility stage: Project Started

Start TRL: 3

End TRL: 5

CO2 capture/Utilization:

Production Volume:

Product Categories:

- Chemicals

Specific Product(s): Lactic acid, PHA, acetone