One of the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s key promises is “to make the EU the world’s first climate neutral continent by 2050.” Such bold ambitions need to be backed by ground-breaking technologies, like the ones to be investigated by the HORIZON 2020 LAURELIN project. More specifically, LAURELIN aims at accelerating the production of renewable methanol for transport.

Renewable methanol reduces carbon emissions by 65% to 95% depending on the feedstock and conversion process. This is one of the highest potential reductions of any fuel currently being developed. By deploying carbon capture and use (CCU) technologies, the LAURELIN project will help decarbonising sectors such as energy-intensive process industries like cement, lime, chemicals, steel and other metals or transportation (e.g. road, air, maritime).

Facts in Brief

Funding organisation

European Commission – Horizon 2020

Timeframe

May 2021 – April 2025

Funding amount

€4.4 million

Coordinator

AIMPLAS
Instituto Tecnológico del Plástico

Partners

LAURELIN gathers ten partners from research organisations, higher education institutions and SMEs from four EU countries, UK and Japan.

 

List of the research consortium members: Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Aliénor (AEU), Asociación de Investigación de Materiales Plásticos y Conexas (AIMPLAS) - coordinator, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer), Process Design Center (PDC), Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH), Universidad de Almeria (UAL), University College of London (UCL), University of Manchester (UoM) and The University of Tokyo (UT)