Cosco: European industry promotes the reuse of carbon dioxide

Cross-sectoral research into the conversion of exhaust gases into valuable plastics
the next step for European industry to promote CO2 reuse in collaboration with
industry and academic partners/assessment of industrial scale testing in southern France
and the next step for the pan-European research project Carbon4PUR will investigate how exhaust gases in the steel industry are converted into chemicals of value plastics. Now, the consortium is evaluating the ideal conditions for industrial scale testing in southern France, with ArcelorMittal steelworks and materials producer Cosco's chemical plant close by. On a laboratory scale, the Carbon4PUR project, which has obtained the first plastic prescive from flue gas such as CO, has so far shown promising results 2
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the Alliance invited representatives of industry, politics, the media and the authorities to make a field visit to the port city of Fos-sur-Mer in Marseille on 20 March to learn about the current situation and to discuss the future infrastructure conditions required to expand practical industrial research. Fos-sur-Mer may be the ideal location for such a test plant.
"We must treat waste as a resource. The cross-industry approach taken by the Carbon4PUR Alliance is the right way to achieve this," said Dr. Markus Steilemann, CEO of Covestro. "Together, we can use more carbon sources like CO instead of carbon source 2 to shut down the carbon ring and save direct fossil resources such as crude oil."
to study industrial symbic
Carbon4PUR is an alliance of 14 industrial and academic partners from seven countries, coordinated by Covestro. The cross-sectoral project, which will run until 2020 and is funded by the European Union, aims to research and development that can change the flow of steel mill gases such as CO new technology 2 and carbon monoxide (CO) to the so-called polyol-chemical polyurethane foams and coatings as a key part otherwise obtained from crude oil. The decisive idea is to avoid the physical separation of CO and CO2 in order to make the process particularly effective and economical.
Carbon4PUR is unique in that it brings together partners across the value chain to collaborate on processes and specifications. For each step, different departments must cooperate in a way that has never been seen before. So far, the project has shown the first promising result: the amount of testing for polyol intermediates has been obtained from CO and CO2. The Alliance is committed to developing and transferring project results to key stakeholders and other EU industries.
the future, carbon in the form of mixed exhaust gases from the ArcelorMittal plant in Fos-sur-Mer could be used as a raw material for catalytic conversion at the nearby Coxtron plant to become a chemical intermediate. Belgian polyurethane foam manufacturer Recticel and Greek raw material suppliers can further use it in the coatings industry Megara Resins to form the final product. Academic and institutional partners include Aachen University of Technology, Berlin University of Technology, Dekma, Imperial College London, D?nt and Leiden Universities, Statoil, Antarctic Carbon Asset Management, Port Marseille and PNO Consultants. They investigate sustainability and various technical and economic issues.