Novel mol­ten car­bo­na­te/cera­mic com­po­si­te ma­te­ri­als for sus­tain­able en­er­gy tech­no­lo­gies with CO2 cap­tu­re and uti­liza­ti­on - MOCO3

Pro­ject sum­ma­ry

The MOCO3 pro­ject fo­cu­ses on the de­ve­lo­p­ment of novel com­po­si­te ma­te­ri­als con­sis­ting of mol­ten car­bo­na­tes in­fil­tra­ted in a solid ma­trix as func­tio­nal ma­te­ri­als in in­ter­me­di­a­te tem­pe­ra­tu­re fuel cells and CO2 selec­ti­ve mem­bra­nes. MOCO3 ad­dres­ses per­for­mance and life­time of these sys­tems by fo­cu­sing on ma­te­ri­als en­gi­nee­ring at all length sca­les (ato­mistic, micro-​ and ma­cro­scopic) gui­ded by syn­er­ge­tic com­bi­na­ti­on of ex­pe­ri­men­tal re­se­arch and ad­van­ced nu­me­ri­cal si­mu­la­ti­ons for dri­ving ma­te­ri­als de­sign. The MOCO3 pro­ject will last 3 years, star­ting at TRL3 and en­ding at TRL4. It is co­or­di­na­ted by SIN­TEF in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Uni­ver­si­ty of Oslo (NO), War­saw Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­no­lo­gy (PL), one high-​tech SME CIM-​mes Pro­jekt (PL) and Uni­ver­si­ty of Avei­ro (PT). The pro­ject will edu­ca­te 2 PhD and train 3 post-​doctoral can­di­da­tes. It fos­ters in­ten­si­ve dis­se­mi­na­ti­on by va­rious aca­de­mic and po­pu­lar chan­nels and in­vol­ves an ad­vi­so­ry board with ma­te­ri­als sup­pliers, tech­no­lo­gy de­ve­lo­pers and end-​users.