Cooperative Agreement DEFE0032507

SUSTAINABLE AROMATICS MANUFACTURING FROM METHANE VIA OXIDATIVE COUPLING AND AROMATIZATION OBJECTIVES INCLUDE: I) CREATING REFINED PROCESS MODELS OF THE SYSTEM BASED UPON PRELIMINARY DATA; II) DEVELOPING A PLANT DESIGN WITH UNIT SIZING TO ACT AS A BASIS FOR COSTING AND TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS (TEA) INDICATING 15% REDUCTION IN THE COST OF AROMATICS COMPARED TO A CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART, RETROFIT, CARBON CAPTURE APPROACH; III) USING MASS AND ENERGY BALANCES TO DEVELOP A PRELIMINARY LIFE- CYCLE ANALYSIS (LCA) OF THE SYSTEM AS WELL AS A COMPELLING BASELINE CASE TO VALIDATE THE POTENTIAL FOR 95% REDUCTION IN NET CARBON EMISSIONS RELATIVE TO AN UNMITIGATED INDUSTRIAL PROCESS THAT GENERATES THE SAME QUANTITY OF THE PRODUCT; IV) DEVELOPING A TECHNOLOGY-GAP ANALYSIS (TGA) AND RELATED PHASE 2 SCOPE OF WORK TO ADDRESS THESE GAPS. PHASE 2 WILL BE FOCUSED ON VALIDATING THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AND DE- RISKING THE TECHNOLOGY FOR COMMERCIALIZATION THROUGH LARGER-SCALE AND LONGER-TERM DEMONSTRATION OF THE OXIDATIVE COUPLING-DEHYDROAROMATIZATION (OC-DHA) TECHNOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL AND/OR MODELING VALIDATION OF OTHER KEY UNIT OPERATIONS, DEVELOPMENT OF REFINED TEA AND LCA, AND DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE COMMERCIALIZATION PLAN.