Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CONDOR (COmbined suN-Driven Oxidation and CO2 Reduction for renewable energy storage)
Berichtszeitraum: 2020-11-01 bis 2022-04-30
The overall objective of CONDOR (https://condor-h2020.eu/) is to build up a modular laboratory demonstrator for solar driven production of energy carriers, i.e. methanol and dimethyl ether and added value chemicals from biomass valorisation. Reactants are simple molecules and waste chemicals such as water (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) or biomass derived alcohols. The only energy source to drive the process is sunlight. This is the most convenient way to store an intrinsically intermittent primary energy source (sunlight) into high energy density products that can be used whenever needed. The CONDOR device is composed of two compartments: (1) a photoelectrochemicall cell, in which water and carbon dioxide are converted into higher value chemicals, CO and H2; (2) a reactor for the conversion of CO and H2 (syngas) generated in compartment 1 into CH3OH and DME by heterogeneous catalysis.