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TWINNING EXCELLENCE IN MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH FOR GREEN ENERGY AND CHEMICALS USING SINGLE-ATOM CATALYSIS

Project description

Sustainable single-atom catalysts for green chemicals

Our dependence on dwindling fossil fuel reserves for energy and chemicals presents significant threats to both our energy security and the environment. As such, exploring alternative, eco-friendly, and sustainable resources, as emphasised by international agreements and EU and UN sustainable development goals, is imperative. The EU-funded MERGE project aims to address this challenge by using renewable carbon feedstocks, such as waste lignocellulose biomass derivatives, to produce essential chemicals and fuels through electro- or photo-catalytic reforming processes. The project will focus on developing environmentally friendly, low-cost, and efficient single-atom catalysts. Additionally, it will promote excellence in research, strategy, and technology transfer between a research unit in Czechia and the widening-country partner.

Objective

Our reliance on depleting fossil fuel reserves for energy, carbon feedstock, and chemicals poses significant threats to both our energy security and the environment. In response, there is a growing interest in seeking alternative, eco-friendly, and sustainable resources. Thus, international agreements and sustainable development goals set by the European Union and United Nations underscore the urgent need for a transition to a fossil fuel-independent and diversified carbon and energy economy. The MERGE project is dedicated to the valorisation of renewable carbon feedstocks ¬that do not compete with food and land resources–such as waste lignocellulose biomass derivatives. This valorisation is achieved through electro- or photo-catalytic reforming processes, resulting in the production of industrially essential chemicals and fuels. To address this challenge, MERGE project is focused on the development of environmentally friendly, recyclable, low-cost, and efficient cooperative and tailored single-atom catalysts. This endeavour leverages knowledge transfer between the research unit in Czechia and the top-class partners of the consortium. The ultimate goal of MERGE project is to cultivate a culture of excellence in research, strategy, management, and technology transfer to the widening-country partner. At the same time, MERGE will position the widening-country partner and all Twinning Partners as prominent contributors in the European landscape in the field of advanced and sustainable catalysts for green and technologically important chemicals, via a committed and deep alliance towards excellence, permeating all facets of research.

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Coordinator

VSB - TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA
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€ 487 125,06
Address
17 LISTOPADU 2172/15
708 00 OSTRAVA PORUBA
Czechia

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Region
Česko Moravskoslezsko Moravskoslezský kraj
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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