Closed Carbon Cycle - Mobility: climate-neutral fuels for the transportation of the future

Project name

Closed Carbon Cycle - Mobility: Climate-neutral fuels for the transportation of the future

Project duration

01.08.2018 - 31.07.2021

Brief description

The joint project aims to develop and demonstrate new paths to the CO2-neutral mobility of the future as part of the BMWi's funding announcement "Energy transition in transport: sector coupling through the use of electricity-based fuels" from spring 2017. Liquid energy sources are the most effective way to transport, store and use large amounts of energy. Fuels based on renewably produced methanol appear to make the most sense. In addition to its direct use, its local processing into pure fuels as well as fuels that can be blended today will also be investigated. For example, MtG (methanol-to-gasoline) is to be produced in a demonstration plant and its use in petrol engines is to be demonstrated. For future applications, 2-butanol and methanol as drop-in fuel, octane booster and as pure fuel for gasoline engines as well as OME/DME and 1-octanol are also being considered, taking into account their multi-fuel capability for diesel engines. The suitability of the new fuels is to be validated under real driving conditions; their efficiency and environmental compatibility are to be evaluated holistically in the production and consumption chains as well as in distribution and market launch.
As part of the project, TU Dresden wants to demonstrate that the use of OME is a decisive step towards meeting the future emission targets of the European Union. OME as a CO2-produced fuel is recognized as a renewable fuel and can thus make a significant contribution to reducing the CO2 balance. For this reason, TU Dresden would like to use its research to demonstrate technically (combustion process) what the use of pure OME or as an admixture to existing diesel fuel means. The latter is particularly important in order to achieve standardization as a blended fuel and thus realize a gradual introduction of OME into the market.

Cooperation partner

• FEV Europe GmbH, - (Germany)
• Opel Automobile GmbH, - (Germany)
• Ford-Werke GmbH, - (Germany)
• Daimler AG, - (Germany)
• Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, - (Germany)
• Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center GmbH, - (Germany)
• Liebherr-Components Deggendorf GmbH, - (Germany)
• Continental Automotive GmbH, - (Germany)
• Continental Mechanical Components Germany GmbH, - (Germany)
• DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH, - (Germany)
• AVL Deutschland GmbH, - (Germany)
• Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH, - (Germany)
• Shell Global Solutions (Deutschland) GmbH, - (Germany)
• Oel-Waerme-Institut gGmbH, - (Germany)
• Research Center Jülich GmbH, - (Germany)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, (ISE) (Germany)
• Darmstadt University of Technology, - (Germany)
• Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, - (Germany)
• FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, - (Germany)
• RWTH Aachen University, - (Germany)
• TEC4FUELS GmbH, - (Germany)
• innogy SE, - (Germany)
• Umicore AG&Co KG, - (Germany)
• bse Engineering Leipzig GmbH, - (Germany)
• DEUTZ AG, - (Germany)
• Volkswagen AG, - (Germany)
• Grillo-Werke AG, - (Germany)

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C3-Mobility

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