Pyrolysis for Green Fuels and enabling future green hydrogen

This project is aimed at developing technologies to turn plastic waste and agricultural waste not only into green fuels and hydrogen, but also potentially bio-chars for soil upgrading or/and platform chemicals, all based on using pyrolysis as the central process, see fig. 1 in Appendix A. This will provide significant reductions in CO2 emissions since these waste fractions are typically incinerated or landfilled.
The waste fractions addressed by this project contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a scale of approx. 13.5 bil tons pr. year, which accounts for 28.5 % of global GHG emissions. Successful implementation will provide both societal and economic impact in both Denmark and India through increased number of jobs as well as promote the technology developed, which will be relevant in a global context.
Through pyrolysis and subsequent processing and separation the carbon from these sources will instead provide biochar for soil enhancement from agricultural waste, naphta for virgin polymer and fuels from plastic waste as well as, with further treatment, hydrogen, and allowing released CO2 from the conversion process to be captured and enter a Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) context.
When fully implemented the project will give rise to a series of plants in Denmark as well as in India. Plants are estimated in the size of 50t waste pr. day, leading to production of 30 t/d of biochar green fuel or chemicals, which can be used directly or converted to hydrogen. It is estimated that 5 plants will be in Denmark, while India will have 20 plants. This will lead to reductions of GHG emissions of 1 ton CO2 emissions /ton waste, which accounts for reduction of 412,500 ton CO2 emissions from the addressed sectors.