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@ARTICLE{Jens:877612,
author = {Jens, Christian M. and Müller, Leonard and Leonhard, Kai
and Bardow, André},
title = {{T}o {I}ntegrate or {N}ot to
{I}ntegrate—{T}echno-{E}conomic and {L}ife {C}ycle
{A}ssessment of {CO} 2 {C}apture and {C}onversion to
{M}ethyl {F}ormate {U}sing {M}ethanol},
journal = {ACS sustainable chemistry $\&$ engineering},
volume = {7},
number = {14},
issn = {2168-0485},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {ACS Publ.},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-02327},
pages = {12270–12280},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Utilizing CO2 to produce value-added chemicals can save
environmental and economic impacts. However, these savings
are reduced by the cost of CO2 supply when CO2 has to be
captured from dilute sources. To reduce the cost of CO2
supply, the combination of CO2 capture and utilization has
been suggested in a single integrated CO2 capture and
utilization (ICCU) process. Although integration is
intuitively appealing, a rigorous assessment of the savings
by integration is missing. In this work, we evaluate if
integration indeed increases savings, by comparing a
utilization process without integration to a novel ICCU
process. In the novel ICCU process, methanol absorbs CO2
from raw natural gas, before the mixture of CO2 and methanol
is hydrogenated to methyl formate. We show that the novel
ICCU process saves up to $46\%$ of the electricity demand,
which results in savings of up to 8 and $7\%$ in the cost
and the greenhouse gas emissions of the utilities,
respectively. However, these savings are only enabled when
raw natural gas with 30 mol $\%$ CO2 is employed; with lower
CO2 concentrations, integration can even increase the cost
and emissions of CCU. From the obtained results, we derive
an indicator to assess the savings potential of ICCU
processes. Finally, life cycle assessment reveals that
CO2-based methyl formate has the potential to reduce both
the global warming impact and the depletion of fossil
resources compared to methyl formate produced from fossil
sources.},
cin = {IEK-10},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-10-20170217},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF3-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-899},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000475838100037},
doi = {10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b01603},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/877612},
}