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 will provide a solution based on a competitive tandem photoelectrocatalytic reactor to efficiently produce oxo-products from solar energy and CO2 emissions from the European Chemical Industries. This will be 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 will deliver 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 is to develop and scale up, from TRL3 to TRL5, a self-biased and cost-effective TPER 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 will develop new concepts and advanced designs of hybrid photoelectrocatalysts and a tandem photoelectrocatalytic reactor with an innovative approach that will allow CO2 capture and conversion in a single unit.
Eurecat presents SunCoChem project during the SusChem-España General Assembly SunCoChem scientific coordinator Miriam Diaz de los Bernardos, Head of the Synthesis and Catalysis Line at Chemical Technologies Unit at Eurecat, has presented the project at SusChem-España General Assembly, focused on chemistry’s contributions to the Green Deal through the circular economy and decarbonization celebrated last October…
SunCoChem takes part in the 3rd edition of the Co2oling the Earth Summer School SunCoChem project has been presented in two different sessions held within the 3rd edition of the Co2oling the Earth Summer School, aimed at discussing about all the aspects of sustainable industry, with special focus on Carbon dioxide Capture and Utilization (CCU)…
SunCoChem as a sustainable chemistry success case in BforPlanet Congress SunCoChem project coordinator Eurecat has participated at the BforPlanet congress, a 2-day hybrid event which has been celebrated in Barcelona and online on 7th and 8th of July. The project has been included in Eurecat’s brochure distributed during the congress, as one of the key…
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.
