Road2GreenChem Cluster
The SunCoChem project is part of the Road2GreenChem Cluster, which brings together EU-funded R&D projects on sustainable chemistry with the objective to develop innovative technologies in the field of geener chemistry, solar energy and greener power, as a concrete alternative to the use of carbon feedstock in the European chemical industry, which is one of the main challenges of the “European Green Deal” strategy.
The projects participating in this cluster will boost awareness regarding the research results and promote knowledge transfer with relevant stakeholders, such as industry and academia, contributing to a safe and sustainable chemistry and increasing the protection of human health and the environment against hazardous chemicals.
The Road2GreenChem Cluster is formed by FlowPhotoChem, ReCode, DECADE project, Solar2Chem, Ocean project and SunCoChem.
Cluster materials
CLUSTER OBJECTIVES
- Achieving an efficient, scalable and sustainable high-value chemical production
- Contributing to meet the zero net carbon emissions targets fixed by the European Commission
- Technologies validated in real industrial environments
- Engaging with industrial and academic stakeholders, as well as policy makers to showcase the advantages of a solar-driven chemical industry in Europe
- Explore synergies between cluster projects for common dissemination and organisation of projects events on specific sustainable chemistry topics
- Maximising dissemination via joining efforts to prepare publications in journals and magazines
CLUSTER PROJECTS
Solar2Chem
Solar2Chem project has the objective to train 15 early-stage researchers to fill the existing gap in the European industrial landscape in the area of solar chemicals production and usage in technical, economic and policy aspect.
FlowPhotoChem
This project aims to make high-value chemical production efficient, scalable and sustainable by adopting a modular photo(electric) catalytic reactor design. FlowPhotoChem advances the state-of-the-art in solar concentrators, membranes, catalysts and computational modelling to use solar energy, water and CO2 to produce ethylene as a proof-of-concept.
DECADE
ReCode
The ReCode project aims at developing an energy efficient technology to recover CO2 from cement-production flue gases by the use of ionic liquids. A circular-economy-approach is enabled within the project: the CO2 produced by cement manufacturing is re-used in a significant part within the plant itself to produce better cement-related products entailing less energy intensity.
OCEAN
OCEAN is a four-year project focused on the development of an integrated process for the production of high-value C2 chemicals from carbon dioxide by using electrochemistry. Within the project, a new electrocatalysis will be compared with chemocatalysis for the production of high-value products, made out of the reduction products of CO2.