| Development of Intermittent Plasmas Powered by Renewable Electricity for CO₂ Removal and Valorization |
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Project TED2021-130124A-100 funded by: 01-12-2022 / 30-11-2024 Principal Investigator Ana María Gómez Ramírez / Manuel Oliva Ramírez Funding Organization: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación «Transición Ecológico y Transición Digital» Code: TED2021-130124A-100 Research Team: Rafael Álvarez Molina, José Cotrino Bautista, María del Carmen García Martínez (US), Alberto Palmero Acebedo, Agustín R. González-Elipe |
CO₂ emissions currently account for approximately 77% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to a gradual increase in global warming with the consequent and severe environmental impacts. Therefore, there is an undeniable need to foster a transition toward an economy in which the intensive use of fossil fuels is no longer the primary driver, promoting the development of environmentally friendly chemical transformation and utilization processes through the use of alternative energy sources.
The project “Development of Intermittent Plasmas Operated with Renewable Electricity for CO₂ Removal and Valorization”, hereinafter referred to as RENOVACO2, aims to develop atmospheric plasma technologies that use electricity as a direct energy vector to carry out chemical processes that are conventionally addressed via catalytic techniques. These conventional methods typically involve high pressures and temperatures and rely on thermal catalysts containing contaminants that are difficult to recycle.