1. MefCO2 – Methanol Fuel From CO2
Horizon 2020
European Union Funding
for Research & Innovation
MefCO2 – Methanol Fuel From CO2
Reference (call): H2020-SPIRE
Start/end date: Dec / Dec. 2018
Partners:
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The leverage factor is the estimation of the cumulative additional investments for the deployment and transfer of successful concepts into industrial products. These investments are additional to the EU funding.
Additional investments include all private investments mobilized (or to be mobilized) for further research and/or to deploy the project results, as well as investments for additional activities within the area of the cPPP as done (or planned) by all the projects’ partners.
The leverage factor is not a percentage. The leverage factor is the amount of money the private parties invest in addition to the EC funding.
Project's Leverage Factor = (B + C ) / A   (for IAs)
A: Total EC contribution received by the project
B: Co-financing from the project (Total eligible budget – Total EC contribution) [for IA’s]
C: Additional investments (not part of project budget)
Project's Leverage Factor = C / A  (for RIAs and CSAs)
Some examples of this additional expenditure could be:
Project equipment: the non-eligible part of the Equipment used in the project (pending depreciation of this equipment after the project end)
1. Research:
Costs associated to implementing end-user feedback.
2. Interaction with users, designers & engineers
Costs associated to interaction with other stakeholders (users, designers, engineers…) in traditional events (fairs, conferences…) and new media (blogs, platforms…)
3. Exploring market opportunities
Costs associated to pro-active pursuing market opportunities and other marketing.
4. Protecting & managing IPR
Costs associated to invest and maintain control over IP portfolio
5. Prototyping & industrial demonstration
Costs of fully functioning prototype for testing in commercial environment (Innovative emphasis shifts from product function to process development and refinement)
Costs associated to the market delivery of the product (new channels, organisations, structure…)
Costs of ‘Bug fixing’
6. Product trials & sales
Costs of additional trials
Costs associated to building relationship with early customers
Costs to revise marketing strategy
7. Industrialisation
Costs of establishing the first production line (including homologation, certification…)
Final costs for scaling-up till fully productive environment
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No

2. Project Case Study 1. The EU/ SPIRE needs 4. How will this happen?
Horizon 2020
European Union Funding
for Research & Innovation
1. The EU/ SPIRE needs
4. How will this happen?
2020
2030
2050
GHG reduction*
20%
40%
80-95%
Renewable energy share
20%**
27% -
Efficiency increase
Min 27%
Building up a pilot plant in Germany:
Production capacity: 1t /day
CO2 capture capacity per ton of MeOH: 1,5 t/d
PEM electrolyser (600 kWel) with improved dynamic response.
MeOH unit: scalable production process with a novel patent protected catalyst with improved conversion and selectivity
Scaling up the pilot plant for commercialization: Business cases for methanol plants of 10,000 and 50,000 t/yr
*From 1990 levels
** 10% Renewable resources for transportation
KC1 FEED: Valorisation of flue gases as alternative sources for chemicals and fuels
KC2 PROCESS: New energy and resource management concepts
KC3 APPLICATIONS: New materials contributing to develop energy and resource efficient processes
KC4 WASTE2RESOURCE: Pilot economically and environmentally sustainable and technically feasible process models
KC5 HORIZONTAL: dissemination of cross-sectorial transfer of good energy and resource efficiency solutions and practices
KC6 OUTREACH: comprehensive dissemination strategy
3. Value to Customers
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Give a short overview of how your project tackles and solves EU needs by providing a positive change (impact):
1. The EU/ SPIRE need: Why is public money being allocated to your project? (e.g: a modernized process industry; ensuring more flexible production processes, etc.)
2. The Project Solution: The tangible project outputs (e.g. transferable industrial symbiosis models; modular plants, new catalyst etc.)
3. Value to Customers: Why will customers pay money for your solution? Or why would your solution be deployed by the industry?
4. How will this Happen?: What key steps will get your solution to a sufficient scale to meet the EU/SPIRE needs? (e.g. standardization, regulation…)
As a reference please take into account the SPIRE roadmap (
Mitigation of CO2 emissions by making a feasible business case for CCS+CCU.
Stabilisation of electric grid by the consumption of the electric energy at its peaks.
Methanol blending with conventional gasoline or methanol use in biodiesel production contribute to the achieving the renewable energy content and advanced fuels content in transportation.
2. The Project Solution
Green chemicals (P2C) and advanced fuel production (P2F) using captured CO2 as feedstock, an energy storage technology using methanol as energy vector in liquid fuels and a test bench for the provision of grid services using flexible electrolysers

3. What are the key expected sustainability impacts of MefCO2?
Indicator (Max 3-4 key indicators)
Baseline
Expected Impact
Reduction of CO2 emissions of methanol as renewable fuel
34 g/MJ
Emission associated with methanol fuels are expected to be below to the reference value of 1st generation biofuels (34 g/MJ) with an expected emissions well below 20 g/MJ. A more accurate value shall be provided when the LCA analysis is completed.
Global Warming Potential (CO2 emission reduction) of CCU w/o CCS --
11 Mtons/year (without CCS) if methanol production were to cover methanol imports in the EU and 3% v/v blending with gasoline is achieved.
Fossil energy intensity
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Highly dependent of the energy mix in the area in which the plant is located and the mode of operation.
Fossil fuel displacement when substituting fossil gasoline
Up to 1.3% on energy basis of gasoline consumption could be displaced if 3% v/v direct blending was achieved.
The BASELINE is important to articulate what you are comparing your assessment to.
e.g. technology to substitute a bioresource for a fossil resource may be just comparing cradle-to-gate technologies, but producing the same product.
Or you may be producing a process/product, which warrants being compared to a process/product that performs the same function, such as ‘energy storage’.
Horizon 2020
European Union Funding
for Research & Innovation

4. Horizon 2020
European Union Funding
for Research & Innovation
What outputs or learning from MefCO2 could have value for other SPIRE projects here?
Renewable hydrogen production: demonstration of flexible operation of water electrolysers can be used to decrease energy costs of renewable hydrogen production and reducing the reliance on natural gas steam reforming.
Surplus Oxygen can be sold or used directly in several industrial process such as combustion processes.
Optimised power plant operation when coupled with flexible hydrogen production for methanol production. Plants can be operated steadily at their maximum efficiency since flexible electrolysers can be adjusted to match supply and demand.
Job preservation: CCU+CCS can help carbon leakage sensitive industries, such as the steel or cement industry, to maintain its competiveness while reducing their emissions.
Growth of cost competitive non- manageable renewable energy generation will spur a new set of business opportunities for those who can build business models based integrating renewable energy surplus and stabilising the electrical grid.
MefCO2 results could contribute to the reduction of the dependency on methanol imports for the chemical industry in the EU-28. An average of 5.8 Mtons where imported Jan-Nov 2016.
Methanol produced in MefCO2 is considered an advanced fuel and its renewable energy content can be double counted towards the Renewable energy content in transport. Moreover, direct blending of methanol with gasoline can reduce the imports of gasoline. A 3% v/v blending with gasoline would add 2.2 Mton/year of additional methanol demand and displace up to 1 Mtoe of gasoline on an energy content basis.
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5. Niederaussen Coal fired power plant
Horizon 2020
European Union Funding
for Research & Innovation
MefCO2 approach
H2 production 600 kW PEM electrolyser
Niederaussen Coal fired power plant
(Germany)
Post-combustion CO2 amine scrubber
MeOH plant
Max MeOH output kg/day
Max CO2 input kg/day
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6. Contact Project coordinator and exploitation manager:
Horizon 2020
European Union Funding
for Research & Innovation
Contact
Project coordinator and exploitation manager:
Mr. David Cuesta:
Ms. Rocío Pacios:
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