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Startups, entrepreneurs, companies !
Tell us all about your innovative solutions !🪴
🚨The call for EVOLEN' UP solutions is now open !🚨
Are you an industrial start-up offering an innovative solution for the energy transition? Apply now!
Your application will be carefully examined. If your solution is selected by our partners, you will be invited to pitch on October 1 or 3, 2024.
The main mission of EVOLEN' UP is to investigate and support new solutions to energy challenges and
to make available to as many people as possible, in complete safety, energy that is cheap, reliable,and clean, a vector of progress.The accelerator is based on three main axes which are to improve operational efficiency, to reduce
the environmental impact and to develop low-carbon energy solutions with a special focus whatever
the call:o Carbon capture
o Energy storage and efficiency
o Hydrogen
For this new session, we invite you to contribute to two themes that are crucial for our industrial sector💡2 THEMES💡
Technologies for new challenges in gas industry
Use of CO2
🚀 Do you have an interesting proposal for energy players ?
💥 Apply now for the next call for solutions !
To make yourself known by our partners who are committed to an open innovation approach in order to renew the industrial chain of the energy sector.
Your applications will be carefully considered.
Theme n°1:
Technologies for new challenges in gas industry
Natural gas plays a key role in reducing global carbon emissions through its use in power generation, heating and as a raw material in various industries. In France, this energy source accounted for 15.2% of total primary energy consumption in 2021 (Ministry of Ecological Transition). What's more, the flexibility of natural gas-fired power plants facilitates the integration of intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power into the energy grid.
The gas industry must adapt to the challenges of energy transition and new regulations, while maintaining profitability and guaranteeing energy security. To meet these challenges, it must optimize its operating efficiency, improve its techniques and processes, and adopt advanced new technologies to minimize energy losses and cut gas emissions during operations as far as possible. At the same time, new energy production alternatives such as biogas and hydrogen need to be developed.
The theme of this new call for solutions is all the technologies that can help the gas industry meet new challenges. Without being exhaustive, the call is open to all start-ups likely to provide innovative and disruptive solutions on:
• Gas purification and separation
• Gas compression adapted for long distance transportation
• Drying technology for pipes
• Natural gas, biogas, CO2 capture and storage techniques and hydrogen production
• Reduction of flaring in O&G operation
• Gas conversion/upgrading at the surface (turbine, etc.)
• Modelling of gas mixtures
• Interaction fluids structures - corrosion fluids with moisture impurities
• Durability of materials, equipment, components, and installation
• Monitoring maintenance, control, leak control monitoring for new uses
• IndustrializationTheme n°2:
Use of CO2
French energy companies are actively engaged in reducing their CO2 emissions. Advanced CO2 capture and storage (CCS) technologies are being developed to achieve this goal. Once captured and stored, the use of CO2 becomes a major issue, enabling companies not only to reduce their carbon footprint, but also to valorize this CO2 into a new product.
CO2 has a wide range of applications in many industries. It can be converted into methanol, used as a solvent in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), or as a supercritical fluid to replace organic solvents and serve alternative processes.
In France, the market for CO2-based products is growing, with a projected market value of €1 billion by 2030 (French Ministry of Ecological Transition). Government initiatives such as the “Low Carbon Strategy” (SNBC) provide substantial funding and support for carbon utilization related projects. In 2021, France has allocated 1.5 billion euros to Research and Development in carbon capture and utilization, again according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition. The theme of this new call for solutions is aimed at all the technologies that can support major energy companies in adding value to captured CO2. Without being exhaustive, the call is open to all start-ups likely to provide innovative and disruptive solutions on:
• Converting CO2:
o into clean fuels by chemical or biochemical means: e-fuel, methanol & dimethylether (DME)
o into bioethanol or biodiesel using micro-organisms (cyanobacteria, algae)
o into solar fuels through artificial photosynthesis (solar energy)
o into formic acid (dihydrogen storage), urea and polycarbonateso into ethylene (plastics precursor) by electrolysis
• The manufacture of innovative catalysts that facilitate all CO2 conversion processes
• Techniques for mineralizing CO2 into carbonates used, for example, in building materials.
• Power-to-Gas (P2G): methane production by converting renewable electricity into hydrogen via electrolysis, then reacting with CO2
• The use of CO2 as a solvent for enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
• The use of supercritical CO2: waste heat recovery, electricity generation and extraction of compounds to replace organic solvents
• The use of CO2 for cooling techniques, CO2 as a refrigerant
• Technologies for separating CO2 from gas streams: membrane technologies
EVOLEN' UP : 3 guiding principles
TO IMPROVE OUR OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
• New capacity for conception and manufacturing (i.e. additives manufacturing), new processes
• Robotization and automation
• Digital transformation (Big data, IA, IIoT, Virtual Reality, ...)
• Safety, cyber-security
• Project management, construction, installation, operation
• Methodology and simplification of operations (Lean)
• Logistic, transport, supply chain
TO REDUCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF OUR ACTIVITIES
• Better management of the resources used (raw materials, energy, re-use, recycling, LCA)
• To measure and minimise emissions and discharges of all types
• Capture of CO2
• Storage, valorisation and neutraliser of CO2 (CCUS)
• To add value to unavoidable energy
• To develop the environmental onitoring of digital transformation
• To reduce energy consumption (sobriety)
TO DEVELOP LOW-CARBON ENERGY SOLUTIONS
• Hydrogen
• Green Gas
• Synthetic fuels, biofuels, green chemistry
• Marine Renewable Energies
• Offshore Wind
• Geothermal energy & coproducts from the exploitation of sub-surface (lithium…)
• Synergy of multi-energies
• Technologies of production, storage, transport and distribution of energy in a systemic approach / LCA
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