SUMMER SCHOOL

About
BL2F invites all PhD students and young scientists interested in intermediates to renewable fuels to participate in the project’s Summer School.
Date: 13-14 June 2023
Location: KIT North Campus, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
TOPICS
- Black liquor and IHTL
- Biomass and pyrolysis
- CO2 and FT
- Methanol and olefines
- H2 economy
SPEAKERS
- KIT
- Tampere
- Brunel
- PSI
- SINTEF
- VTT
AGENDA
DAY 1
9:30 Registration
10:00 Intermediates to renewable fuels (Prof. Dr. Nicolaus Dahmen, KIT)
10:30 High Temperature Liquefaction: Status and an example of pilot demonstration (D. Sc. Jukka Konttinen, TAU)
11:00 On the fundamentals of supercritical water salt separation and concomitant HTL using black liquor (Dr. David Baudouin, PSI)
11:30 Lab visits at KIT-IKFT | VERENA (Hydrothermal Gasification), Python (fast pyrolysis), Continuous HDO, Continuous HTL, Mosys (OME synthesis)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Pyrolysisoils and their application (Dr. Axel Funke, KIT)
14:30 Oxymethylene ethers (OME) as clean and sustainable diesel substitutes (Marius Drexler, KIT)
15:00 Hydrogen economy and use for transport fuels (D.Sc. Jukka Konttinen, TAU)
15:30 Reactor concepts for synthetic natural gas production from CO2 (Mathias Held, KIT-EBI)
17:00 Dinner – get to know the speakers and your peers!
DAY 2
9:30 Towards commercial products from intermediates (Valmet / Navigator)
10:00 Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of bio-oils (Dr. Juha Lehtonen, VTT)
10:30 Group work on mass and energy balances for different intermediates such as black liquor, biomass, plastics, CO2-FT, methanol
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Group presentations
14:00 Tour to KIT Energy Lab 2.0 – Plant network linking electric, thermal and chemical energy flows as well as new information and communication technologies
16:00 Distinctive aspects of techo-economic analyses of the generation of renewable energy carriers (Paul Heinzmann, Andreas Rudi, KIT-IIP)
16:30 TEA / LCA for BL2F
17:00 Closing