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Financement de l’UE (3 995 636 €) : PRODUCTION NEUTRE EN CARBONE ET DÉPLOIEMENT DIRECT DE L’ISOPROPANOL COMME VECTEUR ÉNERGÉTIQUE À L’AIDE D’UNE PILE À COMBUSTIBLE Hor07/10/2025 Programme de recherche et d'innovation de l'UE « Horizon »
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PRODUCTION NEUTRE EN CARBONE ET DÉPLOIEMENT DIRECT DE L’ISOPROPANOL COMME VECTEUR ÉNERGÉTIQUE À L’AIDE D’UNE PILE À COMBUSTIBLE
The use of condensed, synthetic energy carriers offers a prominent solution to decarbonizing heavy-duty transport, such as waterborne mobility. Fuel cells offer superior efficiency and emissions reduction over internal combustion engines for onboard energy retrieval. Hydrogen is considered the major contender energy carrier for fuel cell propulsion, but high compression costs and costly infrastructure for safe storage and bunkering in compressed or liquefied forms hinder widespread adoption. Methanol emerged as an alternative, enabling onboard hydrogen generation via reformers integrated with hydrogen fuel cells. However, its use releases significant amounts of CO2. IsoPROPEL aims to revolutionize this paradigm by pioneering the synthesis of isopropyl alcohol (IPA) as a renewable e-fuel of non-biological origin. Leveraging recent breakthroughs by the partners in electrified chemical-looping and tandem catalysis, an innovative process to selectively produce IPA from CO2 and renewable hydrogen will be validated at TRL4. Additionally, IsoPROPEL will advance the direct isopropanol fuel cell (DIFC) to TRL4 after developing fuel cell components with enhanced tolerance to this cell’s unconventional working medium. This emerging fuel cell technology enables direct energy recovery from liquid IPA via selective electro-dehydrogenation to acetone (ACE), eliminating CO2 emissions onboard and the need for alcohol reformers. It also enables seamless cycling between ACE (discharged) and IPA (charged) energy carrier forms via mild hydrogenation “recharging,” without pressurized or liquefied hydrogen throughout fuel synthesis, use, and recycling. Inland waterway transport serves as a test case. IsoPROPEL will optimize e-fuel production, DIFC integration with ship powertrains, and double-liquid fuel logistics. Techno-economic and life-cycle analyses in EU inland shipping corridors will assess the feasibility and sustainability of this renewable energy carrier for DIFC-powered vessels
| Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas | 818 799 € |
| AVL List GmbH | 385 250 € |
| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS | 385 150 € |
| FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GmbH | 727 000 € |
| Institutt FOR Energiteknikk | 499 938 € |
| Politecnico Di Milano | 353 563 € |
| STICHTING PROJECTEN BINNENVAART | 355 710 € |
| SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU, FAKULTET STROJARSTVA I BRODOGRADNJE | 218 478 € |
| UNIRESEARCH B.V. | 251 750 € |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101235103
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