Project description
Innovative technology for flue gas removal and valorisation
The treatment of post-combustion emissions is currently economically unfeasible for achieving sustainability. The low concentration of CO2 in these streams renders the use of current carbon capture (CC) technologies impossible. Even if CC technologies are implemented, there are no practical uses for the captured CO2 apart from geological long-term storage. The EU-funded SUPERVAL project aims to tackle several aspects of this challenge by developing a new technology. The technology will be designed to provide scientific solutions using low-cost, non-critical raw materials and processes while also removing and valorising the NOx contaminants from flue gas. The project aims to capture harmful flue gas emissions and convert them into valuable chemicals using a solar-powered system, thereby limiting pollutants and generating added-value chemicals.
Objective
In the road to sustainability, the treatment of post-combustion emissions is still far from being techno-economically viable. On one end, the low concentration of CO2 in these streams, precludes the use of current carbon capture (CC) technologies. On the other end, even if CC were successfully implemented, there are not plausible final uses, maybe except geological long-term storage. Our ambitious proposal aims to investigate the viability of a technology able to tackle these challenges at once. Our SUPERVAL technology will develop scientific solutions from low-cost, non-critical raw materials and processes, with the added value of removing/valorizing the NOx contaminants from flue gas.
We propose to design and realize an autonomous, solar-powered installation able to capture harmful emissions from flue gas, and valorize them as commodities for the chemical industry, using water as sacrificial source of electrons and protons. The CO2 will be transformed into an organic, energy-rich molecule (formate). The NOx will be also captured and transformed, in combination with N2, into ammonia using the hydrogen obtained in the CO2 co-electrolysis processes. This integrated effort will offer the comprehensive capture and valorization of carbon and nitrogen components in post-combustion emissions, thus limiting pollutants and resulting in added-value chemicals. The corresponding techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment studies will help to shape the components and performance of SUPERVAL as a useful technological advancement in the search for zero net emissions.
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-EIC - HORIZON EIC GrantsCoordinator
43007 Tarragona
Spain