Launching in January 2025, the ICO₂NIC strategy will promote CO₂ capture and electrochemical conversion to transform industrial CO₂ waste into valuable feedstock. The project aims to capture and valorise waste CO₂, making CCU economically viable, and paving the way to substantially reduce global emissions. Through ICO₂NIC’s CO₂ capture and conversion technologies, the project will be able to produce high-value goods and materials, creating opportunities for long-term CO₂ capture in Europe.

Key aspects the project will focus on include:

• Capturing and electrochemically converting CO₂¾±²Ô³Ù´ÇÌýformic acid.
• ±«²õ¾±²Ô²µÌýrenewable energy²¹²Ô»åÌýinnovative technologies to reduce CO₂ emissions and energy consumption.
• Producing high-value goods and materials while supporting decarbonisation efforts in the EU refinery sector.

The project consortium consists of 11 partners across the CCU value chain: SINTEF, Avantium, TüpraÅŸ, Cool Planet Technologies, µÚÒ»³Ô¹Ï, Procter & Gamble, Idener Research & Development Agrupacion De Interes Economico, Nopalm Ingredients, Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, TNO, and CO₂ Value Europe.

Over the next 4 years, µÚÒ»³Ô¹Ï will scale up it´s bioprocess for protein production together with the strong consortium partners and will prove the whole value chain from industrial CO2 emitter up to customers in feed applications.

The team of µÚÒ»³Ô¹Ï is very excited to start the project and to demonstrate it´s technology at scale advancing the technology readiness level (TRL) closer to market implementation.

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The project aims for the De novo metabolic conversion of electrochemically produced formate into hydrocarbon fuels.

Here is an overview of the concept:For more details please refer to the project .