Electrolytic cell engineering and device optimization for electrosynthesis of e-biofuels via co-valorisation of bio-feedstocks and captured CO2

Montazersadgh, Faraz; Zhang, Hao; Alkayal, Anas; Buckley, Benjamin; Kolosz, Ben W.; Xu, Bing; Xuan, Jin

doi:10.1007/s11705-020-1945-6

Electrolytic cell engineering and device optimization for electrosynthesis of e-biofuels via co-valorisation of bio-feedstocks and captured CO2

Montazersadgh, Faraz; Zhang, Hao; Alkayal, Anas; Buckley, Benjamin; Kolosz, Ben W.; Xu, Bing; Xuan, Jin

Authors

Faraz Montazersadgh

Hao Zhang

Anas Alkayal

Benjamin Buckley

Dr Ben Kolosz B.W.Kolosz@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in Renewable Energy and Carbon Removal and Director of the MSc Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Solutions Programme

Bing Xu

Jin Xuan

Abstract

Utilizing CO2 in an electro-chemical process and synthesizing value-added chemicals are amongst the few viable and scalable pathways in carbon capture and utilization technologies. CO2 electro-reduction is also counted as one of the main options entailing less fossil fuel consumption and as a future electrical energy storage strategy. The current study aims at developing a new electrochemical platform to produce low-carbon e-biofuel through multifunctional electrosynthesis and integrated co-valorisation of biomass feedstocks with captured CO2. In this approach, CO2 is reduced at the cathode to produce drop-in fuels (e.g., methanol) while value-added chemicals (e.g., selective oxidation of alcohols, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and amines/amides) are produced at the anode. In this work, a numerical model of a continuous-flow design considering various anodic and cathodic reactions was built to determine the most techno-economically feasible configurations from the aspects of energy efficiency, environment impact and economical values. The reactor design was then optimized via parametric analysis. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Citation

Montazersadgh, F., Zhang, H., Alkayal, A., Buckley, B., Kolosz, B. W., Xu, B., & Xuan, J. (2021). Electrolytic cell engineering and device optimization for electrosynthesis of e-biofuels via co-valorisation of bio-feedstocks and captured CO2. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 15(1), 208-219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-020-1945-6

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Apr 6, 2020
Online Publication Date	Jul 9, 2020
Publication Date	Feb 1, 2021
Deposit Date	Aug 3, 2024
Publicly Available Date	Aug 9, 2024
Journal	Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering
Print ISSN	2095-0179
Electronic ISSN	2095-0187
Publisher	Springer
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	15
Issue	1
Pages	208-219
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-020-1945-6
Keywords	Electrosynthesis; E-biofuels; CO2 utilization; Computational model
Public URL	https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4057280

Files

Published article (1.1 Mb)
PDF

Publisher Licence URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2020.
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.