Sara Giarola, Pablo Basterrechea-Roca, Nilay Shah, Yara Evans, Rocio Diaz-Chavez. 2024. Enhancing the CO2 potential as a bioeconomy enabler.

CooCE partners involved: ICL

This study modelled and optimised the biomethanation to demonstrate the feasibility of bioenergy technologies coupled with CCUS as in the CooCE project. To do so, we develop a two-layer optimization approach to estimate the life cycle cost of a biogas-fed biomethanation plant. The process is first modelled identifying the relevant process alternatives which then inform a superstructure model set to optimize the whole system, including the upstream and the downstream sides to the process. The suggested method will be used to demonstrate the criticalities of the biomethanation process and demonstrate under which conditions the process would be scalable and feasible.