On a pilot and pre-industrial scale, the POSEIDON project will implement a high-performance process based on an innovative technological concept to obtain renewable synthetic methanol (e-methanol) from renewable electrical energy and hydrogen, including CO2 capture. The pilot plant will be tested in relevant operating environments, in maritime traffic engines and on pilot vessels.
The project began on September 1, 2023 and will last 48 months, during which the foundations will be laid to create new value chains in the ports of Valencia (Spain) and Thessaloniki (Greece). Coordinated by the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER), it has a consortium made up of 19 partners from 7 European countries.
Javier Díaz, president of AVEBIOM , highlights that the POSEIDON project “ can provide an interesting avenue for productive diversification for biogas plants and biomass power plants. Obtaining renewable e-methanol from the capture of biogenic CO2 would allow them to offer an alternative “bio e-fuel” to the maritime sector and other markets as well .”
Spanish technologist Francisco Vidal Vázquez is one of the developers of the innovative technological concept that will be implemented and co-founder of the start-up ICODOS , based in Germany and seeking expansion in countries like Spain.
Also participating is the Port of Valencia community of practice, energized by the Valenciaport Foundation and supported by technical partners such as the integrated water cycle company Global Omnium , to demonstrate the viability of the disruptive technology to valorize CO2 from biogas from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs).
POSEIDON at the 16th International Bioenergy Congress
POSEIDON will be taking its first steps in Spain with a technical presentation at the 16th International Bioenergy Congress, organized by AVEBIOM in Valladolid, on October 3rd and 4th, as part of the 3rd Renewable Gas Exhibition. Global Omnium and ICODOS will present the project, the technology, and its application in biogas plants, where it can facilitate the removal of CO2 from biogas, enriching it with biomethane, and using the captured CO2 for the production of e-methanol.