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BioCO2

CCS-CCU carbon footprint reduction using bio-adsorbents

Project Objectives

BioCO2 aims at establishing an international academic partnership to join the efforts in investigating the techno-economic and environmental feasibility of different routes for the decarbonization of large emitter industries. Research institutes from Poland, Spain, Italy, and Portugal collaborate to investigate the potential of reducing the carbon footprint of these industries by means of both Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies and biomass deriving from municipal waste.

The Research Unit of Process Engineering is mainly involved in assessing the technical and economic viability of the direct catalytic conversion of CO2 into dimethyl ether (DME), an emerging alternative fuel with a high attractiveness related to the potential of being used in diesel compression-ignited engines lowering greenhouse gases and soot emission. This route for CO2 valorization was also compared with the possibility of storing CO2 underground.

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  • De Falco, M.; Natrella, G.; Capocelli, M.; Popielak, P.; Sołtysik, M.; Wawrzyńczak, D.; Majchrzak-Kucęba, I. Exergetic Analysis of DME Synthesis from CO2 and Renewable Hydrogen. Energies 2022, 15, 3516. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15103516
  • Facchino, M.; Popielak, P.; Panowski, M.; Wawrzyńczak, D.; Majchrzak-Kucęba, I.; De Falco, M. The Environmental Impacts of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage on the Electricity Sector: A Life Cycle Assessment Comparison between Italy and Poland. Energies 2022, 15, 6809. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15186809
  • Wawrzyńczak, D., Majchrzak-Kucęba, I., Pevida, C., Bonura, G., Nogueira, R., & de Falco, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Carbon Chain in Carbon Dioxide Industrial Utilization Technologies: A Case Study (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003336587 

Start/End Date

1 October 2019 - 30 September 2022

Principal Investigator

Marcello De Falco – Head of Unit of Process Engineering

Other institutions involved

  • CUT - Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland)
  • CSIC-INCAR – Instituto Nacional del Carbón (Spain)
  • ITAE - Instituto di Tecnologie Avanzate per l'Energia "Nicola Giordano" (Italia)
  • CERIS-IST-UL – CERIS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)

Source of funding

International Academic Partnership Program from the funds of the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA).

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