Celebrating the SunCoChem General Assembly in Amsterdam
The SunCoChem consortium celebrated its 7th General Assembly on 18 – 19 of April in the Avantium facilities located in Amsterdam.
Representatives from each partner entity attended the meeting to review and discuss about the main results achieved and to set up the next steps and actions to be achieved during the last 6 months of the project’s execution.
SunCoChem is developing a 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, coordinated by Eurecat, is formed by the Politecnico di Torino, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS); small and medium-sized enterprises developing advanced materials and technologies in Solaronix, Avantium, Laurentia and IOLITEC; engineering firm Hysytech; chemical corporations Dow and IFF; and operational support partners: the Spanish Association for Standardisation (UNE) and the International Hellenic University.
