R&D potential in the field of carbon based

technologies in the Usti region

Doc. Ing. J. Lederer, CSc.

PF UK, Ústí n. L., 21.9.2015

Usti Region – main businesses

Carbon based energy

Glass and ceramics

Carbon based

chemistry

Usti Region – main businesses

Carbon based energy

Glass and ceramics

Carbon based

chemistry

VUHU

UNICRE

Academy of Sciences

Universities

Unipetrol Centre of Research & Education

█ a new regional research centre

█ focusing on industrial chemistry

What is UniCRE?

UniCRE building design by ‘David Leon and Associates Design Architecture

Consulting’

Providing solutions for competitive and

environmentally friendly technologies

█

Bridging fundamental research and

needs of industry

UniCRE – Mission

UniCRE - location

Czech Republic

Ústí nad Labem; Inorganic technologies

Litvínov – Chempark; UniCRE

Ústí nad Labem

Prague

Litvínov

Funding ERDF: European Regional Development Fund

Timeframe 2010 - 2015

Scope Infrastructure investment, research teams

Staff (2014) 80-90 (65-75 research personnel)

Total cost 780 mil. CZK (31.2 M€)

Subsidy 592 mil. CZK (24.2 M€)

UniCRE – basic facts

25 CZK/EUR

UniCRE – R&D positioning

Fundamental research

‘‘Innovation Applied

research

UniCRE – research structure

EFFRET

EFFicient

REfining

Technologies

ADPET

ADvanced

PEtrochemical

Technologies

RENTECH

Renewable &

ENvironmental

TECHnologies

Detailed analysis of feedstocks and products

Catalyst and process testing facility

Preparation and characterization of catalysts

Improvement of economy of existing

petrochemical processes

Efficient utilization of steam cracker

side products

New monomers for advanced polymer

Non-traditional raw materials for

petrochemical applications

UniCRE – core directions

ADPET

ADvanced

PEtrochemical

Technologies

Increasing of automotive fuels quality

Improvement and modernization of

refining technologies

Increasing the value of alternative

energy raw materials and by-products

EFFRET

EFFicient

REfining

Technologies

UniCRE – core directions

Biomass upgrading into secondary raw

materials for energy and chemical

industry

Catalytic processes for upgrading of

renewable raw materials into products

with high added value

Environmental adsorption and catalytic

technologies

UniCRE – core directions

RENTECH

Renewable &

ENvironmental

TECHnologies

Main purpose

█ Catalyst testing

█ Process development and scale-up

UniCRE – testing facilities

Under construction

University Centre UCT Prague - Unipetrol

CHEMPARK LITVÍNOV

Education……………….. Approx. 50 students, PhD. studies

Research………………… Projects and joint research teams

Chemical engineering; modelling and experimental verification of systems involving hydrodynamics, mass transfer and/or chemical reactions; dynamics of chemical and biological systems; chemical robotics

University Centre UCT Prague - Unipetrol

Company profile

Company Mission

Mission

To be a key engineering and research company focused on the development

of the brown coal mining in Czech Republic

To provide its knowledge and skills to main shareholders and other

customers in the field

To utilise knowledges obtained in the field of mining and mine remediation

in other industrial branches

Vision

To achieve the leading position in the engineering and research in the field

of the brown coal mining area by increasing the know-how level and by

providing the integral solutions

Main activities

Research

and

Development

Entrepreneurial

activities in the

region

Focused on the

brown coal mining

technology, coal

beneficiation and

utilization, open

cast mine

remediation

including the

environment

Centre for

Environment

Protection in Most

and Kralupy –

communication

with the inhabitants

Engineering,

Design and

Expertise

reports

Main company

activity focused on

the expertise,

engineering and

service activities

mainly for the

mining companies

in the region of

North-west

Bohemia

Product

certification

and laboratory

services

Certification of

products utilized

in construction

and machinery,

services of

accredited labs

Research and Development

coal

remediation

immission and emmissions

products of coal burning and

desulphurisation

Research and Development

Coal

alternative fuel (with biomass and waste),

adsorbent agents and their application

carburizer for steel production,

pyrolysis

Research and Development

Remediation (Reclamation)

quality of soils and rocks for remediation purposes

condition for the natural remediation

treatment and utilization of water from the open cast mines

Hydrogeology and stability evaluation of the remediated dumps

(bodies)

Research and Development

Immisions and emmissions

origin and nature of the dust particles and their distribution

quantification of the fractional composition of aerosols in the air

resuspension of dust particles

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

K101 Z92 Z92 K83 K83

29,1 mg/m3 55,3 mg/m3 23 mg/m3 5,3 mg/m3 16 mg/m3

nadložní hornina nadložní hornina nadložní hornina uhlí uhlí

sucho sucho po rozpuštěnímlhy

sucho po rozpuštěnímlhy

PM10

PM2.5

PM1.0

PM0.5

PM0.25

>10 μm

Research and Development

products from coal burning and desulphurisation

mixtures for construction – new recipeces, mechanical testing, hazardous

parameters

influencing environment

long term tests in the natural conditions,

Materials for remediation – dumps of the opencast mines and for

line construction structures.

Modern infrastructure

Qualified and expert teams

Joint research projects

Coprocessing of coal and oil

Coprocessing of carbonaceous feedstock with biomass

Environmental processes

Thermal processes

UniCRE + VUHU: synergies and reasons for the

cooperation

Usti region as the most important industrial area

in the field of carbon based technologies

IS

sufficiently equipped with the R&D infrastructure

with a good access to the basic research and

universities.

Conclusion

IS

Usti region as the most important industrial area

in the field of carbon based technologies

sufficiently equipped with the R&D infrastructure

and the good access to the basic research and

universities

?

Conclusion