Electrochemical Hydrogenation of biO-crude (ELHYOs)

ELYHOs aims at developing a novel and disruptive technology for the direct electrochemical bio-crude upgrading from biomass feedstock, specifically from hydrothermal liquefaction process, HTL. The main aim is to achieve a deep heteroatom removal and reduce the total acidity number of bio-crude to match the key figures for petroleum crude. This is critical to introduce the bio-crude into the existing petroleum infrastructures without any other treatment. ELYHOs is an advanced membrane-less electrochemical reactor (EFR) and its seamless integration in HTL has the potential to upgrade the bio-oil at a cost of merely 0.5 DKK/liter.