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Dr. Philipp Furler, CEO

furlerp@ethz.ch

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Fuels from Air and Sunlight

Fuels from Air and SunlightDr. Philipp Furler, CEO

furlerp@ethz.ch

Mobility is based on oil

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Solution

Solar-Dish; modular & decentralized

Solar Reactor

Solar Reactor

Solar-Tower; centralized, large-scale

Fuel synthesisnCO + 2n H2 → 𝐂𝐧𝐇𝟐𝐧 + nH2O

Synthetic Solar Fuels(Diesel, Jet, Methanol…)

CO2/H2O

O2

H2/CO

CO2/H2O air captureAir

H2O/CO2 splittingH2O → H2 + 0.5 O2

CO2 → CO+ 0.5 O2

commercial

commercial

commercial

commercial

commercial

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ETH Zurich Shell, Amsterdam

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Underlying Magic

2-step solar redox process▪ Based on cheap / abundant metal oxides

Lab-scale demonstration 2014/15

Energy Fuels 2015, 29 (5), 3241-3250

Solar Reactor Fischer-Tropsch

H2O

CO2

H2,CO

World’s first

Solar Jet(Kerosene)

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1. Field demonstration (2017/18)

2. Scale-up to MW-size (2017-2020) with industrial partners

3. First pre-commercial pilot plants 2020/2021Aug 29, 2017Philipp Furler 5

Implementation Road

In operation 2018

IMDEA, MadridETH Zurich

In operation 2017

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Dr. Simon AckermannPostDoc ETH Zurich

PhD ETH Mech. Eng. 2015

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Team and partnersProf. Dr. Aldo SteinfeldFounder and Advisor

Head Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers

ETH Zurich

Dr. Lukas GeissbühlerPostDoc ETH Zurich

PhD ETH Mech. Eng. 2017

Remo Schäppi

MSc student ETH Zurich

MSc thesis – dish system

Dr. Reto ArpagausLegal Advisor

Dr. iur., LLM. Attorney-at-Law

Partner Bratschi Wiederkehr & Buob

Dr. Philipp FurlerCEO and Founder

Pioneer Fellow ETH Zurich

PhD ETH Mech. Eng. 2014

MBA candidate (grad. 2017)

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Acknowledgment

ETH transfer

Industry Day 2017

Thank you for your attention