Project description
Turning sunlight and carbon dioxide into chemicals
The Coordination and Support Action (CSA) SUNRISE is a scientific and technological project ambitious in its goal to exploit solar energy and atmospheric gases such as CO2, water and nitrogen to provide a sustainable alternative to the fossil-based, energy-intensive fuels and compound chemical synthesis process. The CSA aims at providing a Science and Technology roadmap to bring in 10 years renewable fuel production to technology readiness level 9 (TRL 9) at a cost of 0.4 €/L and atmospheric CO2 photoconversion at TRL 7. The ambition is to develop a portfolio of novel technologies to convert up to 2 500 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year and produce over several hundred tonnes of commodity chemicals per hectare per year. SUNRISE will largely contribute to making Europe the leading hub of technology innovation, closing the carbon cycle and providing enormous economical, societal and environmental benefits.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energy
- natural sciencesbiological sciencessynthetic biology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciences
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
2311 EZ Leiden
Netherlands
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Participants (19)
75015 Paris 15
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00185 Roma
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8600 Dubendorf
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751 05 Uppsala
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28935 Mostoles Madrid
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80686 Munchen
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52428 Julich
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SW7 2AZ London
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1120 Bruxelles
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80333 Munchen
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20014 Turku
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00 927 Warszawa
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182 23 Praha
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EC4A 4AB London
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43007 Tarragona
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1000 Bruxelles
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7491 Trondheim
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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92400 Courbevoie
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