Descrizione del progetto
Far progredire la conversione della CO2 in metanolo
Offrendo diversi vantaggi in qualità di combustibile a zero emissioni di carbonio, il metanolo è un attraente vettore di energia che può essere prodotto mediante l’impiego esclusivo di risorse rinnovabili. Alla luce di tale premessa, il progetto METHASOL, finanziato dall’UE, creerà un processo di produzione sostenibile ed efficiente in termini di costi che si basa su una riduzione della CO2 in fase gassosa guidata dalla luce visibile, garantendo un’efficienza di conversione dell’energia solare in metanolo pari al 5 %. Il consorzio è composto da 14 partner provenienti dall’UE e da Stati membri associati (Cina e Stati Uniti), tra cui ricercatori internazionali in materia di fotosintesi artificiale. Il progetto realizzerà una rivoluzionaria combinazione di un sistema per la reazione di riduzione della CO2 basato su una struttura metallorganica e un nitruro di carbonio grafitico per reazioni fotocatalitiche di evoluzione dell’ossigeno, mediante un’eterogiunzione a schema Z.
Obiettivo
Methanol is an appealing energy vectors, with attractive volumetric and gravimetric energy values, storable in liquid phase at ambient conditions of pressure and temperature, and that can be used as fuel directly or converted into chemicals or gasoline. However, its production lacks a sustainable route. Thus, the METHASOL project aims to produce methanol through a sustainable and cost-effective process based on the selective visible light driven gas phase CO2 reduction, with a solar to methanol energy conversion efficiency of 5%. During 42 months, METHASOL will gather 14 partners from EU/Associated MS, China and the USA, including some of the world’s most recognized researchers on artificial photosynthesis, to achieve a ground-breaking combination of a CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) system based on Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) and a graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-CN) for photocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER), through a Z-scheme heterojunction.
Following the definition of the system specifications (WP1), a first set of materials for OER and CO2RR will be synthesised and their photocatalytic activity and stability will be screened (WP2). The most promising materials will be further analysed thanks to experimental characterisation and modelling (WP3), leading to guidelines used for designing an enhanced CO2RR and OER materials (WP4). The best systems will then be integrated through a Z-scheme heterojunction, either with or without a mediator, and tested in tailored reactors operating in the gas phase under different conditions (WP5). A complete sustainability analysis will be conducted (WP6) to ensure the clean production of methanol. The cooperation between European and Chinese research entities will be consolidated to last beyond the project lifetime through the creation of a common exploitation plan (WP7). Through its ambitious activities on photocatalyst developments for solar to methanol conversion, METHASOL will propose a new path for decarbonizing Europe.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsliquid fuels
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysisphotocatalysis
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryalcohols
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbotany
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsenergy conversion
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