GENESIS, a European project led by an international consortium, received a grant from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme to develop and upscale the most promising membrane materials for CO2 capture and demonstrate their performance, durability, and reliability in industrial environments.
Brussels, 29 January 2018 — The European Union has awarded a grant of 7.9 million euros to the GENESIS collaborative project. The grant, from the Horizon 2020 framework programme, was awarded to GENESIS, a research and innovation project carried out by an international consortium led by LEITAT. The project partners include research centers such as the Technical University of Delft, the University of Twente, ECN, Sintef, the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. Large enterprises like ArcelorMittal and CEMEX and SMEs including Orelis Environnement, MOF Technologies, Funzionano, Céramique Techniques et Industrielles, Yodfat Engineers, and Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology are also involved. The project was officially launched on the 24th of January in Brussels.
The GENESIS project aims to develop and upscale some of the most promising materials for CO2 capture and demonstrate their performance, durability, and reliability in industrially relevant and operational environments. The materials developed and upscaled within the GENESIS project are IPOSS (polyPOSSimide hybrid organic-inorganic) and MOF (Metal-Organic Framework) membrane systems, which exhibit excellent performance for CO2 capture. These membranes have high gas permselectivity and stability at elevated temperatures and can be produced on a large scale. Nanostructured materials like MOF and POSS can be tailored to obtain suitable membrane selectivity and permeability characteristics.
GENESIS membranes will be tested in carbon-intensive industries and aim to achieve at least 90% CO2 recovery at a cost below current available technologies. “With GENESIS, we go a step further and aim to reach the commercialization of the membranes,” says Marcel Boerrigter, project coordinator of GENESIS, LEITAT.
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+34 93 788 23 00
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 760899. This publication reflects only the author’s views, and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
