Carbon4Pur

  This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 768919.  

Title

Turning industrial waste gases (mixed CO/CO2 streams) into intermediates for polyurethane plastics for rigid foams/building insulation and coatings

Concept

The EU process industry needs to become less dependent of fossils as source of carbon, and – at the same time - to reduce the greenhouse effect by decarbonizing the economy. Carbon4PUR will tackle the two challenges at the same time by transforming the CO2/CO containing flue gas streams of the energy-intensive industry into higher value intermediates for market-oriented consumer products. The industrially driven, multidisciplinary consortium will develop and demonstrate a novel process based on direct chemical flue gas mixture conversion, avoiding expensive physical separation, thus substantially reducing the carbon footprint, and also contributing to high monetary savings.

Participants

• Covestro Deutschland AG, Germany (Coordinator)
• Recticel S.A., Belgium
• Viomichania Ritinon Megaron Anastasios Fanis Anonymos Etairia, Greece
• Universteit Gent, Belgium
• Universteit Leiden, Netherlands
• DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V., Germany
• Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• Commissariat à l´énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France
• ArcelorMittal Maizieres Research S.A., France
• South Pole Carbon Asset Management AG, Switzerland
• Grand Port Maritime de Marseille, France
• PNO Consultants B.V., Netherlands
• Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom