Environmental assessment of OME3-5 synfuel production via the power-to-liquid pathway

Oxymethylene Dimethyl Ethers (OME) are promising diesel fuel alternatives and interesting solvents for various industrial applications. In this report (Reproduced from [Hank et al. 2019] with permission from the Royal Society of Chemistry), a well-to-wheel Life Cycle Assessment of short OME oligomers as produced via a Power-to-Liquid (PtL) pathway has been conducted. Variations in electricity and carbon dioxide supply as well as the hardware demand for the PtL plant components (e.g. PEM water electrolysis, carbon capturing, 36 kta OME plant capacity) have been considered. Conventional diesel fuel is used as the comparative benchmark.