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BeBOP (Biomass to bio/e-methanol by Breakthrough SOEC-based Process) is a Horizon Europe project demonstrating a first-of-a-kind way to make sustainable methanol from residual biomass. It integrates biomass gasification, a solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) and a methanol reactor into one flexible, circular system, aiming to roughly double methanol productivity versus conventional biomass-to-methanol routes while reaching over 95% carbon efficiency. The pilot is being built at VTT's gasification facility in Finland.

ICODOS leads the engineering and design of the BeBOP methanol synthesis unit, built around a load-flexible, 3D-printed reactor with strong heat management. The reactor converts SOEC-conditioned syngas from biomass gasification into methanol, and is designed to be compact, modular and scalable — the same additive-manufacturing approach ICODOS applies across its R&D work.

• Load-flexible, 3D-printed methanol synthesis reactor

• Converts SOEC-conditioned syngas from biomass gasification into methanol

• Compact, modular reactor design with efficient heat management

• Building the first-of-a-kind pilot at VTT in Finland

• EU CORE Consulting
• Politecnico di Milano
• LUT University
• VTT
• Elcogen AS
• Elcogen Oy
• ICODOS
• ECODESIGN
• INERIS
• WOOD
• Pro-Akademia
• UNI

Funded by the European Union (Horizon Europe, Grant Agreement No. 101178117). Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.