Tüpraş Contributes to Petroleum Industry with BiZeolCat Horizon2020 Project

The R&D Project named “BiZeolCat”, partnered by Tüpraş, is entitled for a support under “Industrial Sustainability” call of Horizon2020 Program, the most important research and innovation program of Europe.

BiZeolCat (Bifunctional Zeolite Based Catalysts And Innovative Process for Sustainable Hydrocarbon Transformation) project, which will be implemented by partnership of 13 organizations from 9 countries including Tüpraş, is entitled for a support under “Industrial Sustainability” call of Horizon2020 Program, the most important research and innovation program of Europe.

The project aims to develop innovative processes and technologies to ensure that valuable petrochemical raw materials, such as propylene, butadiene and benzene, are produced more efficiently and so it is aimed to lower greenhouse gas emission, to reduce the energy consumption and to allow lower investment costs, compared to current technologies in petrochemical production processes.

Tüpraş, aiming to support the sustainability of the petroleum industry by contributing to the project, will take a significant role in the catalyst development studies in the project. Tüpraş will also perform pilot based performance tests of the methods to be developed under the project by using the reactor systems available in its R&D laboratories.

The budget reserved for Tüpraş in scope of the project is 440 thousand Euros, 100 percent of which is supported by European Union. The entire budget of the project is 6,570,000 Euro.

The project, which was initiated on January 1, 2019 with the participation of organizations from Turkey, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Slovenia, Sweden, Belgium and Italy, is planned to continue for 4 years and end on January 1, 2023.

Official website of the project: http://www.bizeolcat.eu/