Phoenix – Launch Space Power-to-X
Description
For the successful transformation of the Rhenish lignite mining area into a region of the future for sustainable economic activity, the regional energy-intensive industries need low-emission and future-proof solutions that are independent of fossil fuel imports. The focus of Launch Space Power-to-X (PHOENIX) is the further development, demonstration and implementation of the most promising approaches of Power-to-X (P2X) technologies. The generation of material energy carriers such as basic chemicals and platform chemicals, circular fuels and combustibles, as well as heat and gases from biogenic or unavoidable industrial CO2 sources, opens up the way to novel, sustainable and self-sufficient value creation pathways. This will help to secure existing jobs in the Rhenish mining region, create sustainable jobs and at the same time reduce dependence on fossil fuel and raw material imports.
The aim of PHOENIX is to establish P2X as a core element of a demonstrator region and thus to promote the regional development of the Rhenish Future Region. The Rhenish mining area is to be developed into a modern and internationally pioneering model region in the field of sustainable industrial production processes, thus creating the basis for the creation of sustainable jobs.
Research at Jülich System Analysis
A combined bottom-up and top-down approach is used to analyze how P2X can be used in a targeted manner. In addition, the project is investigating how new, cross-industry and cross-sector value chains can be generated. The bottom-up approach includes life cycle assessments to determine the economic, environmental and social impacts of the P2X use cases. Based on this, further P2X use cases that are relevant for a successful transformation of the Rhenish mining region are generated together with the technology developers. The implementation of the further P2X use cases is also analyzed in a multidimensional way in a second iteration. In PHOENIX, complementary macroeconomic analyses determine possible labor market and value creation effects in the Rhenish mining region and beyond.
Duration
November 2024 – November 2028
Funding
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Partner
IET-1 Grundlagen der Elektrochemie (Coordinator)
IMD-1 Structure and Function of Materials
IMD-2 Werkstoffsynthese und Herstellungsverfahren
RWTH Aachen
FH Aachen
Thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA
EVONIK AG
Covestro
Contact
Dr. Petra Zapp
Abteilungsleitung Nachhaltige Lebenszyklen
- Institute of Climate and Energy Systems (ICE)
- Juelich Systems Analysis (ICE-2)
Room 208