Carbon management

Carbon management refers to all measures that are necessary for securing a sustainable approach to difficult and unavoidable CO₂ emissions. Key elements on the road to achieving this are consistently avoiding or minimizing CO₂ emissions in established value chains for the production of chemicals and fuels, as well as using CO₂ as an raw material for these processes. Development as well as optimization of catalysts and processes have a central part to play in both of these cases.

Carbon Management process map:

There are a number of challenges associated with carbon management. The majority of the technologies needed in order to achieve the net zero targets are not yet available and must first be developed. Many of the technologies that are already available are still too expensive or not yet ready for market. In addition, consistently transitioning the value chains to processes with low or no CO₂ emissions requires enormous investments. Catalyst testing, and high throughput methods in particular, accelerate research and development in the field of carbon management and use of CO₂ as a raw material.

Cost reductionand process optimization

Many carbon management processes are not yet ready for market or are too cost-intensive. However, advances in catalyst development and process optimization continue to deliver improvements here.

Developing new processes

At the same time, new processes are constantly being developed to use CO₂ more efficiently and achieve the ambitious sustainability goals of companies and countries, as many of the technologies and processes required for this do not yet exist.

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Carbon Management

On 42 pages, you will find everything you need to know about the catalytic utilization of CO2 and its use as raw material, focusing on the opportunities and challenges of reducing the carbon footprint.

How carbon management supports the transformation of the chemical industry and the transport sector towards sustainability

The use of CO2 as a building block and feedstock for chemical processes
The importance of producing sustainable syngas from CO2 or synthetic methane through CO2 hydrogenation

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Extensive application knowledge and broad portfolio of workflows

At hte, we are the world’s leading provider of solutions for lab-scale R&D workflows. We support you with both catalyst and process development for new technologies and in optimizing existing processes. We use our technology platform to accelerate your new processes for using CO₂ or avoiding CO₂ emissions in the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. The key processes involved here are the conversion of CO₂ into CO, as well as conversion of C1 products such as CO₂ or methanol into chemical intermediates or fuels. This also applies to related fields, such as the production, storage, and transport of hydrogen.

We have 25 years of experience in the production of C1 building blocks and their conversion into chemicals and fuels. We also have extensive application knowledge in many technology fields, including the following:

Ammonia cracking: High-temperature processes for CO₂ activation or challenging processes such as ammonia cracking are performed at high temperatures in combination with high pressures. hte’s high-temperature reactor concept offers the ideal tool for mapping industrially relevant processes (high pressure at high temperature) on a laboratory scale here.

Synthesis gas conversion: hte boasts 25 years of experience in this field. The robust gas-to-liquid workflow for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis on a small, highly parallelized scale and bench scale deserves a special mention here. Besides plant operation, we also have extensive expertise in complex product analytics using GC.

Methanol synthesis: hte was qualified by Topsoe as an independent tester for methanol production. Recycling operations can also be performed for this process at a specific test unit.

The subsequent process steps, leading to production of chemicals, olefins, or fuels, can also be supported with hte technology:

Methanol-to-X (hydrocarbons, olefins, gasoline)

Synthesis of hydrocarbons or alcohols from CO₂, CO, and hydrogen.

Conversion of CO2 into synthesis gas via reverse water-gas shift reactions, or CO₂ reforming from methane.

We accompany you on your journey

hte not only offers the energy and refinery industry flexible laboratory systems for process development and catalyst research in their research and services, but also advises R&D teams on the steps of their research journey. With their specialized knowledge, our experts help bring research projects to completion quickly and efficiently.

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