Exploitation and Business Potential

Lukas Brunbauer
ITS, WP Leader
Phy2Climate
A global approach for recovery of arable land through improved phytoremediation coupled with advanced liquid biofuel production and climate friendly copper smelting process.
The overall objective of the H2020 Phy2Climate project is to build the bridge between the phytoremediation of contaminated sites with the production of clean drop-in biofuels.
Fraunhofer UMSICHT´s contribution to the project is the conversion of the biomass used for the phytoremediation at the pilot sites by using a thermochemical conversion technology called the thermo-catalytic reforming process (short TCR).
The products of this process namely bio coke, bio oil, an aqueous phase and gas will be individually upgraded.
The suitability of the bio coke as a substitute for conventional petroleum based coke in the copper smelting process will be assessed. During the phytoremediation process, the heavy metals accumulate in the biomass. After the TCR conversion carried out by Fraunhofer UMSICHT in Sulzbach-Rosenberg almost all the heavy metals will be concentrated in the bio coke.
For further information, please visit the project website: www.phy2climat...