EForFuel

=Basics

• A Project funded by the EU Related to Power-to-X technology, in particular, Power-to-Fuels
• Usually Stylized as eForFuel
• It uses Electrochemical production of Formic Acid / Formate using Water and CO2
• This can be used as is in a Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cell or in non-fuel uses (ie Power-to-Chemicals )
• This project however demonstrated a further step, metabolic conversion to Propane and Isobutene (Which was intended for production of the Iso-octane
  • Isooctane is currently used as an Anti-Knock Agent / Octane Rating Booster due to Crude Oil Refinery processes not lending themselves to production of pure chemicals, outside of the Fischer-Troph Reaction or use of crude substitutes such as Pyrolysis Oil or Bio-Crude P2X is often the opposite.
• Thus this study is not only an interesting example of P2X tech, but also a somewhat novel Alternative Fuel Economy

Overview

• It seems to be divided up into "Work Packages" ie all the different steps were developed independently
• Quote:
  • "The work flow of the eForFuel project is carefully planned and organized in order to accomplish the project goals efficiently and effectively, and to meet the needs of all stakeholders. There are 8 work packages in total, with 14 partners working complementarily on them."
• Will be abbreviated as "WP" onwards from here

WP-1

• Link to the Page on WP-1
• WP1 Efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction to formic acid
• Quote:
  • " In terms of energy conservation, simplicity and stability, activating CO2 is more efficient using chemical methods (rather than biochemical methods). We will develop an electrolyser, in which CO2 is reduced to formic acid and water is oxidised to oxygen. Our first priority will be to reduce CO2 under acidic conditions, so that the final product, the formic acid, remains stable, or as we say "undissociated"."

WP-2

• Link to the Page on WP-2
• Growth of E. coli on formate
• Quote:
  • "WP2 aims to establish E. coli strains growing on fomate via two synthetic pathways. In WP1 we talked a lot about formic acid, which is stable or chemically "undissociated" under acidic conditions."

WP-3

• Link to the Page on WP-3
• Production of propane and isobutene in E. coli
• Quote:
  • "WP3 will introduce and optimize synthetic pathways in our formate-dependent E. coli strains (WP2), in order to produce our two target fuels: Propane, which is increasingly used as a vehicle fuel, and isobutene, which can be converted into isooctane, a superb fuel substitute."

WP-4

• Link to the Page on WP-4
• WP4 An integrated electrobioreactor
• Quote:
  • "the aim of WP4 is to design and develop an integrated electrobioreactor, in which the processes developed before can occur in one location and at scale."

External Links

• The Main Website
  • User: Eric here, for whatever reason my browser is giving this error anytime i try and open the page:
    • "This site can’t provide a secure connectionwww.eforfuel.eu uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH"
    • HOWEVER The Wayback Machine's copies work fine, so those are what i have been reading
    • If you have the same issues just use the website or chrome extension for the wayback machine and you should be good to go