Analysis of the Status of Research and Innovation Actions on Electrofuels under Horizon 2020

Marzi, Emanuela; Morini, Mirko; Gambarotta, Agostino

doi:10.3390/en15020618

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“…Brynolf et al [5] focusing on production costs; and more recently Ababneh and Hameed [28] reviewing the production processes, costs and environmental impacts; and Ince et al [29] presenting 79 system-level mathematical modeling and simulation studies of different e-fuel production pathways (including no differentiation in relation to transport mode). Marzi et al [30] analyzed the state-of-the-art of e-fuels research by specifically mapping projects on e-fuels production funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme and found the largest interest to be in hydrogen. Sherwin [31] conducted and optimized a techno-economic assessment focusing on how e-fuel cost could be minimized.…”

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Review of electrofuel feasibility—prospects for road, ocean, and air transport

Brynolf

Hansson²,

Anderson³

et al. 2022

Prog. Energy

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To meet climate targets the emissions of greenhouse gases from transport need to be reduced considerably. Electrofuels (e-fuels) produced from low-CO2 electricity, water, and carbon (or nitrogen) are potential low-climate-impact transportation fuels. The purpose of this review is to provide a technoeconomic assessment of the feasibility and potential of e-fuels for road, ocean, and air transport. The assessment is based on a review of publications discussing e-fuels for one or more transport modes. For each transport mode, (i) e-fuel options are mapped, (ii) cost per transport unit (e.g., vehicle km) and carbon abatement costs are estimated and compared to conventional options, (iii) prospects and challenges are highlighted, and (iv) policy context is described. Carbon abatement costs for e-fuels (considering vehicle cost, fuel production and distribution cost) are estimated to be in the range 110-1250 €/tonne CO2with e-gasoline and e-diesel at the high end of the range. The investigated combined biofuel and e-fuels production pathways (based on forest residues and waste) are more cost-competitive than the stand-alone e-fuel production pathways, but the global availability of sustainable biomass is limited making these pathways more constrained. While the potential for e-fuels to decarbonize the transport sector has been discussed extensively in the literature, many uncertainties in terms of production costs, vehicle costs and environmental performance remain. It is too early to rule out or strongly promote particular e-fuels for different transport modes. For e-fuels to play a significant role in transportation, their attractiveness relative to other transport options needs to be improved. Incentives will be needed for e-fuels to be cost-effective and increased clarity on how e-fuels are linked to existing policies is needed.

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Review of electrofuel feasibility—prospects for road, ocean, and air transport

Brynolf

Hansson²,

Anderson³

et al. 2022

Prog. Energy

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“…Several projects were analyzed by Marzi et al (2022) where the authors found 70 projects about electro-fuels by using the CORDIS portal. The scholars distinguished the main research areas in electrofuel development as well as identified the key features, project aims, integration levels, and the outcomes of the projects.…”

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Horizon 2020 Project Analysis by Using Topic Modelling Techniques in the Field of Transport

Esztergár-Kiss

2024

Transport and Telecommunication Journal

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Understanding the main research directions in transport is crucial to provide useful and relevant insights. The analysis of Horizon 2020, the largest research and innovation framework, has been already realized in a few publications but rarely for the field of transport. Thus, this article is devoted to fill this gap by introducing a novel application of topic modelling techniques, specifically the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), in the Horizon 2020 framework for transport projects. The method is using the Mallet software with pre-examined code optimizations. As the first step, a corpus is created by collecting 310 project abstracts; afterward, the texts of abstracts are prepared for the LDA analysis by introducing stop words, optimization criteria, the number of words per topics, and the number of topics. The study successfully uncovers the following five main underlying topics: road and traffic safety, aviation and aircraft, mobility and urban transport, maritime industry and shipping, open and real-time data in transport. Besides that, the main trends in transport are identified based on the frequency of words and their occurrence in the corpus. The applied approach maximizes the added value of the Horizon 2020 initiatives by revealing insights that may be overlooked using traditional analysis methods.

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“…Moreover, researchers discovered the field of electro-fuel production of the projects funded in the Horizon 2020 program. The projects were selected based on specific features under the "Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy" challenge [5]. In another paper, research projects on smart distributed energy systems were collected in the energy sector based on predefined keywords [6].…”

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Transportation Research Challenges Based on the Analysis of EU Projects

Esztergár-Kiss

2023

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In recent years several projects have been realised in the field of transportation, but there is a lack of systematic analysis of research challenges connected to these projects. Thus, the main aim of this paper is to provide an overview of these challenges through EU funded projects in the field of smart, green and integrated transport. Based on EU strategic documents, reports and roadmaps, 10 topics are identified playing a crucial role in transportation-related research. A systematic analysis of the projects is realised, where the projects collected from an online database in the Horizon 2020 framework programme from 2015 to 2020 are categorised into these topics. The results show that travel behaviour, big data and open data, sustainable mobility planning and smart solutions are covered by several projects which reflect the main research trends. While active and shared modes, multimodal transportation, trip optimisation and Mobility as a Service are also popular topics. Based on the results, the most underrepresented research areas are artificial intelligence and social networks. The analysis of the connections between the research topics could enable the achievement of a long-term paradigm shift in urban mobility, which is beneficial for researchers, professionals and policy makers.

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Analysis of the Status of Research and Innovation Actions on Electrofuels under Horizon 2020

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Review of electrofuel feasibility—prospects for road, ocean, and air transport

Review of electrofuel feasibility—prospects for road, ocean, and air transport

Horizon 2020 Project Analysis by Using Topic Modelling Techniques in the Field of Transport

Transportation Research Challenges Based on the Analysis of EU Projects

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