Energy Storage - Fraunhofer IGB

Power-to-X-to-Y process cascades

CO2 conversion to synthetic fuels and chemicals

© Fraunhofer IGB
Cultivation of microbial production strains in the shake flask (left) and in the 10-liter fermenter (right).

Hochdurchsatz-Screening — © Fraunhofer IGB
In this multi-purpose system with four parallel reactor tubes, the researchers can test catalysts under different reaction conditions in high throughput.

Fraunhofer IGB makes the greenhouse gas CO₂ usable as a raw material for the chemical industry. With customized catalytic processes from electrochemistry, biotechnology and heterogeneous catalysis, we offer ambitious companies attractive opportunities to use and valorize CO₂ streams and to establish renewable value chains.

Our approach: Power-to-X-to-Y

Fraunhofer IGB extends the known Power-to-X approach to the Power-to-X-to-Y concept by further processing the intermediates synthesized from CO₂ ("X") in chemical and biotechnological downstream processes to fuels, polymer building blocks, platform and fine chemicals ("Y").

We offer solutions and developments from laboratory to pilot scale as well as technical and economic feasibility studies in the fields of …

Synthetic fuels
Processes for fuel synthesis from CO₂ via methanol or other alcohols

Power-to-X and biotechnology – profitably combined
Sustainable and scalable Power-to-X technologies in combination with industrial biotechnology approaches for fermentation of C₁ products (methanol, formic acid, etc.)

Electrosynthesis
Electrification of chemistry through direct use of renewable electricity in chemical synthesis for activation of CO₂, water or organic substrates

Thermocatalytic synthesis
New processes and catalysts for the production of platform chemicals (methanol, olefins, acrylic acid derivatives, ammonia, etc.)

High-throughput catalyst development and testing
Patented processes for the synthesis of CO₂-activating catalysts; catalyst screening in parallelized reactor systems (batch and continuous)

Events and Trade Fairs

Düsseldorf / September 20, 2022 - September 22, 2022

decarbXpo > Energy Storage | Fair and Conference

Come visit us ...

at the Fraunhofer Energy Alliance booth - Hall 9, Booth 9E22

Power-to-X technology development – An overview and the benefits for companies

Power-to-X-to-Y process cascades

Our approach: Power-to-X-to-Y

Contact Press / Media

Dr. Arne Roth

Contact Press / Media

Dr. Lénárd-István Csepei