Overview

Heat-to-Fuel is a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project carried out by 14 partners from across Europe that aims to deliver the next generation of biofuel production technologies supporting the de-carbonisation of the transportation sector. Heat-to-Fuel will spearhead EU’s research in grasping the opportunity to provide efficient technologies and processes for decarbonised fuels for the transportation sector. Objectives: .- Deliver cost-competitive technologies achieving biofuel prices below €1 per litre. This is achieved by a 20% reduction in the operation costs of the biofuel production processes; .- Increase the quality of the biofuel resulting in 5% life-cycle green-house gases emissions reduction from biofuel production; .- Contribute to delivering goals of EU’s energy security by increasing the share of local resources used for producing energy, and thus reducing EU’s dependency of energy’s imports; .- Support local economies by generating 80-100 direct and 250 indirect jobs each time a new Heat-to-Fuel biorefinery is built; .- Prove the technological feasibility and its economic worthiness of the concept acting as a catalyst of future industrial units. These overarching objectives will be achieved thanks to the integration of novel technologies and to complementary activities on design, modelling, development of hardware & processes, testing and life cycle analysis of a fully integrated Heat-to-Fuel system, representative of next generations of sustainable biofuels technologies. At the end of the project, the technology will be market ready in around 7 years. The know-how acquired will allow scalability at a demonstration level before commercialisation. This project receives funding from the #EUH2020 Research & Innovation Programme, under GA 764675. Any related posts reflect only the views of the project owner.