SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS TO KEY QUESTIONS

NO. WE ARE THE DIFFERENCE-MAKERS.

Are we goingto burn up everything?

Is humanity condemned to suffer from the water it has polluted?

Will waste be the graveof our future?

Will we let Europe degenerate to the world's back yard?

REFLEXRecycling carbon in a flexible competitive energy system - #lutreflex

LUT PLATFORM

Professor Jero Ahola & D.Sc. Tero Ahonen

REFLEX – Recycling carbon in a flexible competitive energy system We solve how to recycle carbon in renewable energy systems. In new energy system carbon dioxide is reused and renewable energy stored. The produced energy is emission-free, cost-effective and independent. This will revolutionize the entire energy field. The research will focus on the key technologies needed in the future and on the related business potential.

CHALLENGE (1/2) REFLEX

In Paris COP21 meeting the participating countries agreed on the target of 1.5 °C for global average temperature rise by 2100 from pre-industrial level. It requires net-Zero CO2 emissions from energy sector by 2050. How to reach this in the given time window?

POSSIBLEPICTURE

Country pledges for

2030

CHALLENGE (2/2)REFLEX

The main contributors to energy sector GHG emissions are the burning of coal and gas for electricity and heat, use of oil for mobility, and industrial use of fossil fuels.

77%

EN

ER

GY

Land use change 18%

Agriculture 13%

Transportation 14%

Electricity& heat 25%

Industry 27%

14%

8%

SOLUTION (1/2)REFLEX

Future flexible energy system will be mainly based on the mass-produced solar and wind power. The whole energy use will be directly or indirectly electrified. Flexibility to the electricity system will be built with energy storages and demand response technologies.

EXAMPLEREFLEX

Globally, the majority of new power generation capacity additions were already renewables in 2015, mainly in wind and solar.

Courtesy of: Breyer, C., Farfan, J., 2016

Indirect electrification of the energy usage will be mainly done through hydrogen production from renewable electricity. By combining it with captured CO2, fuels, chemicals, materials, etc. can be synthesized with Power-to-X technologies. NEOCARBONISATION

BRIDGING

SOLUTION (2/2)REFLEX

Source: Pasi Vainikka, 2016

With P2X process hydrocarbons (e.g. fuels) can be synthesized from electrically produced hydrogen and captured CO2 through thermochemical or biochemical route.

POWER-TO-XREFLEX

Electrolysis CO2 reduction process

Excess electricity

H2O

O2

CO2

H2

H2O

CxHyOz

Q Q

Finnish pulp and paper industry produces 36 Mt/a of CO2, fossil fuel combustion is responsible of 60 Mt/a. By converting this bio-CO2 to methane with P2G we would have ~170 TWh of gas. This equals the energy content of yearly oil & gas use in Finland, Estonia and Latvia.

FINLAND & CO2

REFLEX

The carbon footprint of lime kilns. Manning, R., Tran, H., et al. TAPPI 2010Presentation of H. Karjula & T. Tynjälä

The platform aims to build world-class competence related to the modelling of on-going energy transition, key technologies of P2X and related business models. Parallel research projects with different maturity levels and other partners are also started to support the objectives.

OBJECTIVEREFLEX

Breyer, C. et Al., 2015

RESEARCH TEAMWP1: Modelling the energy transition

Prof. Christian BreyerStudy of energy system transition

pathwaysWP2: Business and service model

development Prof. Jukka HallikasNew business and service models

WP3: Energy storages and demand responseDr. Jukka LassilaAnalysis of ES and DR systems

WP4: Hydrogen gen. and CO2 captureDr. Antti KosonenResearch of H2 generation and CO2

capture from airWP5: Chemical synthesis of fuels

Prof. Tuomas KoiranenFuels&chemicals production with H2

and CO2

REFLEX

Jero Ahola Tero Ahonen Christian Breyer Jukka Hallikas

Jukka Lassila Antti Kosonen Tuomas Koiranen

KEY PERSONSREFLEX

Neo-Carbon Energyhttp://www.neocarbonenergy.fi@neocarbonenergy

EFEU – Efficient Energy Use, TekesFERMATRA – Tackling Mass Transfer

Challenges in Fermentations, TekesFLEXe – Flexible Energy Systems, TekesMICATOX–Microllistructured Reactors for

Catalytic Oxidation, Academy of FinlandPHOENIX – People for the European Bio-

Energy Mix, EU H2020 SET – Smart Energy Transition, AoFSOLETAIR – From the Sun and Air, Tekes

PROJECT PORTFOLIOREFLEX

RESEARCH PROGRAM CALLS We’re interested in joining the following

calls as partners:

LCE-06-2017 New knowledge and technologies

New renewable energy technologies

LCE-10-2017: Reducing the cost of PV electricity

LCE-21-2017: Market uptake of renewable energy technologies

SPIRE-08-2017 Carbon dioxide utilisation to produce added value chemicals

Please contact tuomas.koiranen@lut.fi

FOF-09-2017 Novel design and predictive maintenance technologies for increased operating life of production systems

Interest in soft sensing methods,please contact tero.ahonen@lut.fi

REFLEX

REFLEX

REFLEX in collaboration with VTT Finland and Neo-Carbon Energy (www.neocarbonenergy.fi) project will build the first P2X pilot at LUT. The pilot will be unique in the world – Fuels from the solar electricity, water and CO2 captured directly from the air.

SOLETAIR 2016-18

SOLETAIR 2016- REFLEX

220 kWp Solar PV plant at LUT

SOLETAIR 2016- REFLEX

¼ of CO2 air capture unit at VTT Finland

Source: Pasi Vainikka, 2016

SOLETAIR 2016- REFLEX

5 kW PEM water electrolyzer & u-CHP system at LUT.