CO2toCH4

PROJECTDESCRIPTION

The project aims to design a carbon dioxide methanizer for low carbon energy systems sustainable development. The experimental model shall be validated through particular testing and validation procedures. Furthermore, innovative integration perspectives will be investigated in order to ensure depolluting of traditional fuel fed plants. Thus, the current proposal falls within the scope of Eco-nano-technologies and advanced materials domain, Decontaminating technologies subdomain. Enabling the power sector transition towards reduced emissions generation is a highly complex matter. In a greater environmentally restricted and increasingly uncertain power generation context, the project addresses the design and validation of methanation tank possibly coupled to a diesel generator, considering a further innovative and integrative approach within hybrid energy systems. Sustainable development is tackled worldwide, regulatory and decision factors leading towards higher levels of energy security and climate change mitigation, mostly through measures comprising RES integration, decarbonization facilities implementation and technology efficiency improvement. Low CO2 emissions power generation scenarios are thoroughly investigated, most of the time comprising decarbonization installations. CO2 utilization, not widely employed currently, reduces the need of its storage (from CCS approach). Therefore, CO2 methanation represents a better alternative to reduce harmful emissions and tackle with multiple safety and economic issues related to the storage section of a CCS installations. Moreover, the project aims an innovative approach in the field of decarbonization technologies, both nationally and worldwide, further research and demonstration being required. The scope of the project follows a multi-perspective sustainable development pathway, its outcomes contributing to improve the actual energy framework.