The BioSCOPE project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), under the Consolidator Grant call
Reducing greenhouse gases and pollutants emitted by the transport sector is a crucial issue in the fight against climate change and air pollution. Renewable fuels produced from biomass (biofuels) are an ideal solution to reduce the carbon footprint of propulsion systems that are difficult or impossible to replace with electrical energy, such as those in air, maritime and freight transport. road. For example, if the use of fossil fuel in the aviation sector continues at the current rate, it is estimated that its global CO2 emissions will increase 6 times by 2050. However, the addition of biofuels to conventional fuels strongly impacts their stability to oxidation (resistance to aging) and leads to changes in their chemical and physical structures. This phenomenon is a major obstacle to their use in aviation, for safety reasons. The oxidation of liquid fuel also has consequences on the operation, efficiency and durability of engines, and constitutes a source of pollutants that has been neglected until now. The BioSCoPe project aims to understand the synergistic effects of fuel oxidation, the action of antioxidant additives, and their consequences on fuel reactivity and the pollutants emitted during its combustion. The development of coupled experiments for aging and combustion and of models capable of simulating the experimental results will make it possible to formulate innovative biofuels/fuels/antioxidant mixtures, optimized, for the first time, throughout their entire chain of use: from storage to combustion.
