SunCoChem project addresses the need of the European Chemical Industry to reduce their dependence on carbon feedstock by producing highly competitive and integrated solutions enabling the carbon-neutral production of energy and high-value chemicals.
SunCoChem provided a solution based on a competitive photoelectrocatalytic reactor to efficiently produce oxo-products from solar energy and CO2 emissions from the European Chemical Industries. This was achieved by process intensification coupling a solar-driven carbon dioxide reduction to CO/water oxidation to O2 with CC bond carbonylation reaction catalysed by novel multifunctional hybrid photoelectrocatalysts.
The project delivered materials with improved catalytic performance from cheap and earth–abundant raw building block with application in the solar-driven chemistry to produce chemicals by using renewable energy (sunlight) and renewable carbon sources (CO2).
Direct exploitation and utilization of solar energy
Revalorisation of industrial waste streams and by-products
Improved chemical energy conversion efficiency
Energy saving and CO2 emissions reduction
The project’s ambition was to develop and scale up, from TRL3 to TRL5, a self-biased and cost-effective photelectrocatalytic reactor technology with a high flexibility and a modular approach for the solar-driven CO2 conversion and CO-carbonylation of chemical precursors to oxo-products.
SunCoChem developed new concepts and advanced designs of hybrid photoelectrocatalysts and a tandem photoelectrocatalytic reactor with an innovative approach that will allow CO2 capture and conversion.
SunCoChem project results presented at the International Conference on Environmental Catalysis in Sicily Project partners from Politecnico di Torino (POLITO)…
Eurecat showcases SunCoChem solutions at Advanced Factories 2025 Eurecat Technology Centre, the coordinator of the SunCoChem project, has participated in…
Celebrating the final General Assembly of SunCoChem in Tarragona The SunCoChem consortium celebrated its final General Assembly on 21 – 22…
Transforming industrial CO2 emissions into sustainable chemical products The European SunCoChem project has developed a sustainable alternative to produce valuable…
with extensive experience in hybrid nanostructured materials organometallics and photoelectrocatalysts, membrane contactors for CO2 capture processes, cathodic and PE-cathodic and anodic elements, advanced electron microscopy characterisation, novel ILs and TBM,
researching on photoelectrodes, electrocatalysts, PEcats, ILs and TPER design, engineering and manufacturing.
acting as potential end-users of the technology.
for advanced in situ XPS characterisations of photocathodes and benchmarking the PEcats and TPER efficiency.
for standardisation.
