SBIR Phase II: Utilizing Carbon Dioxide (CO2) as a Feedstock to Produce Commodity Chemicals

SBIR 第二阶段：利用二氧化碳 (CO2) 作为原料生产大宗化学品

• 批准号: 2151548
• 负责人: Chern-Hooi Lim
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: New Iridium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2151548&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Utilizing; Carbon

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is abating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the production of terephthalic acid, a large-scale commodity chemical. Development of this technology will provide a pathway for direct utilization of CO2 in everyday products. For example, implemented at scale, the proposed process has potential to sequester about 20 million metric tons of CO2 annually, equivalent to the emissions from 4.3 million cars. This project also has significant commercial potential. By delivering a lower-carbon product at lower cost than the current technology, the proposed innovation has the potential to become the de facto standard for manufacturing this commodity chemical. Annual licensing and ancillary revenue from a single plant is estimated at $30 million, and at 70-80% market share, typical for the dominant process, annual revenue could grow to over $1.5 billion. The success of this project will also provide a scientific and entrepreneurial blueprint to spur similar efforts thus advancing the state of the art of CO2 utilization technologies.This SBIR Phase II project proposes to develop a light-driven chemical technology that enables the use of CO2 as a raw material in large scale chemical production of terephthalic acid. This project abates CO2 emissions by converting CO2, captured from point sources such as industrial flue stacks or direct air capture, to useful chemical and consumer products. Carbon dioxide is a stable compound and is typically unreactive and therefore incompatible with traditional heat-driven processes. The proposed project will help mature the technology of CO2 activation by photocatalysis, which has been shown to be effective in inducing CO2 reactivity. The first step is to demonstrate the feasibility of using CO2 to produce the target chemical at bench scale. Next, the reaction performance will be optimized using high-throughput experimentation techniques. Finally, the process will be scaled up in a photo flow photoreactor. In this part of the project, engineering scale up issues will be addressed as a precursor to realizing a production plant.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是减少对苯二甲酸（一种大型商品化学品）生产中的二氧化碳 (CO2) 排放。 该技术的开发将为日常产品中直接利用二氧化碳提供途径。例如，如果大规模实施，所提议的流程每年有可能封存约 2000 万吨二氧化碳，相当于 430 万辆汽车的排放量。该项目还具有巨大的商业潜力。通过以比现有技术更低的成本提供低碳产品，所提议的创新有可能成为制造这种商品化学品的事实上的标准。单个工厂的年许可和辅助收入估计为 3000 万美元，如果占主导工艺的典型市场份额为 70-80%，年收入可能会增长到超过 15 亿美元。该项目的成功还将提供一个科学和创业蓝图，以刺激类似的努力，从而推进二氧化碳利用技术的最先进水平。该SBIR第二阶段项目建议开发一种光驱动化学技术，使二氧化碳能够用作大规模化学生产对苯二甲酸的原料。该项目通过将从工业烟囱或直接空气捕获等点源捕获的二氧化碳转化为有用的化学品和消费品，减少二氧化碳排放。二氧化碳是一种稳定的化合物，通常不发生反应，因此与传统的热驱动工艺不相容。该项目将有助于成熟光催化二氧化碳活化技术，该技术已被证明可以有效诱导二氧化碳反应。第一步是证明使用二氧化碳在实验室规模生产目标化学品的可行性。接下来，将使用高通量实验技术优化反应性能。最后，该过程将在光流光反应器中放大。在该项目的这一部分中，将解决工程规模扩大问题，作为实现生产工厂的先决条件。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。