Goal of Research project

Development of CO₂ conversion high-efficiency catalyst and reaction system for the production of methanol, light olefins and liquid hydrocarbons using renewable energy

Research contents

• Development of reaction system suitable for high efficiency CO₂ hydrogenation catalyst and intermittent power supply
• Integrated process design of CO₂ hydrogenation catalytic reaction technology using renewable energy
• Optimization and design of commercialization process through operation of mini-pilot plant of Power-to-Liquids (>5kg/day)

Future utilization and vision

• By developing a CO₂ direct conversion reaction system optimized for the fluid supply of renewable energy, we have secured the next generation CO₂ direct hydrogen source catalyst and reaction technology
• Identification of obstacle technology through process design and development, contributing to securing blank technology and securing original process technology
• Achieved high-efficient power-to-liquids or power-to-chemicals technology that can maximize the utilization of domestic renewable energy by overcoming the existing energy-intensive and large-scale 2-stage indirect conversion system and high efficiency module conversion of CO₂ conversion reaction system.

Sub research & Commissioned research Projects

• Sub1 Development CO₂ direct hydrogenation catalyst process (Ki-Won Jun, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology)
• Sub2 Development of a two-stage methanol synthesis process using two temperature-zone catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 (Honggon Kim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
• Sub3 Process design and techno-economic evaluation of CO₂ utilization framework (Jiyong Kim, Incheon National University)
• Sub3 Development of catalytic process for the direct conversion of CO₂ to aromatics (Jaehoon Kim, Sungkyunkwan University)

Representative figure

• Highly efficient catalyst process for methanol/light olefin/liquid hydrocarbon synthesis from CO₂ hydrogenation
• Highly efficient power-to-X integrated process suitable for flexible power supply from renewable energies