Programme

Summit 2023 programme

EcoFuel Summit 2023 – Innovations in Carbon Capture to Sustainable Fuels

The link to this event will be sent out on Monday November 27

9.00 – 9.20 Welcome and introductions

- - Welcome - Kerstin Wiesner Fleischer (Siemens Energy, Germany)
  - Programme overview - Luca Bondi (Advisory Project Manager - CINEA, Brussels, Belgium)
  - EcoFuel overview - Kerstin Wiesner Fleischer (Siemens Energy, Germany)

9.20 – 10.25 Topic 1: CO₂Feedstock for Synthetic Fuels

- - 9.20 - EcoFuel Lecture - A new direct air capture process as means of carbon feedstock provision for EcoFuel synthesis, Aleksander Makaruk (Axiom angewandte Prozesstechnik GmbH, Austria)
  - 9.35 - Oral Presentation - CO₂ feedstock – challenges and opportunities based on solvent-based technology for CO₂ capture from oil refineries and industrial clusters with multiple emission sources, Inna Kim (SINTEF Industry, Norway - H2020 project REALISE CCUS)
  - 9.50 - Oral Presentation - Carbon-Cycle Economy Demonstration: Geo-methanation of green H₂ and CO₂ from various sources”. Benedikt Hasibar (RAG Austria, FFG project C-CED)
  - 10.05 - Round table

10.25 – 10.45: Coffee Break

10.45 – 11.50 : Topic 2: From multi-carbon intermediates to fuel

- - 10.45 - EcoFuel Lecture - Synthetic fuels from olefins: EcoFuel in relation to other approaches, Arne Roth (Fraunhofer Institut, Germany)
  - 11.00 - Oral Presentation - Hydrofinishing of Synthetic Fuels, Christopher Zschiesche (Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany)
  - 11.15 - Oral Presentation - Accessing CO₂-derived aviation fuels based on catalytic dehydration of alkanol intermediates as a key step, Harald Gröger (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  - 11.30 - Round table

11.50 – 13.00 : Lunch

13.00 – 14:20: Topic 3: Electrochemical CO₂ conversion to multi-carbon products

- - 13.00 - EcoFuel Lecture - Development of CO2RR electrolyzers from catalyst to stack level in the EcoFuel project, Peter Strasser (technical University Berlin, Germany)
  - 13.15 - Oral Presentation - Catalyst design strategies to enable selective CO2 electrolysis, Raffaella Buonsanti (EPFL, Switzerland)
  - 13.30 - Oral Presentation - The importance of spatiotemporal effects in CO₂ electrolysis to multicarbon products, Thomas Burdyny (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands)
  - 13.45 - Oral Presentation - Electroreduction of CO₂ to CO as key step for long-chain hydrocarbons production at mild conditions, Vanesa Gil (Aragon Hydrogen Foundation, Spain - H202 project 4AirCRAFT))
  - 14.00 - Round table

14:20 – 15.10: Topic 4: TEA/LCA of synthetic fuels

- - 14.20 - EcoFuel Lecture - LCA and TEA of the EcoFuel production pathway, Christian Kortus (AVL, Austria)
  - 14.35 - Oral Presentation - Catalyst design strategies to enable selective CO₂ electrolysis, Hannah Johnson (Toyota Motor Europe, Belgium - H2020 project Sun-to-X )
  - 14.50 - Round table

15.10 – 15.30: Conclusion