Technology

New EU Project ICO₂NIC to Transform Industrial CO₂ Waste into Valuable Feedstock

Kensy — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:46:00 +0000

With €14 million in funding from the European Union, the ICO₂NIC project will drive the development of Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) technologies by transforming industrial CO₂ waste into valuable resources, advancing economic sustainability and helping to achieve EU climate targets.

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 CO₂��Գٴ��formic acid.
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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, Tüpraş, Cool Planet Technologies, ��һ�Թ�, 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, ��һ�Թ� 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 ��һ�Թ� 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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��һ�Թ�´s concept wins 2. Prize in Greentech – Innovation Call

Kensy — Tue, 21 May 2019 17:00:26 +0000

��һ�Թ� is delighted to annouce the 2. Prize in Greentech – Innovation Call by Business Metropole Ruhr GmbH. Frank Kensy received the Prize during a splendid ceremony in SANAA building of Zech Zollverein in Essen.

The concept of Formate Bioeconomy convinced the jury in the competition. Besides the impressive keynote speech of Prof. Michael Braungart (cradle-to-cradle), Prof. Andreas Pinkwart (Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy, NRW) gave a talk and emphasized the importance of innovation and founders who bring new technology to the market.

Happy winners with Minister Andreas Pinkwart (Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy, NRW)

��һ�Թ� awarded 3. Prize of “Best CO2 Utilisation 2019”

Kensy — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:00:47 +0000

��һ�Թ� is very honoured to receive the 3. prize of “Best CO2 Utilisation 2019” form Nova Institute and Covestro during the “7^th Conference on Carbon Dioxide as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers” ().

The award was sponsored by Covestro AG and was handed over to the winners by the CEO of Covestro, Dr. Markus Steilemann.

Award ceremony “Best CO2 Utilisation 2019”, f.l.t.r Michael Carus, nova-Institute; Dr. Frank Kensy, ��һ�Թ� (3rd Winner, DE); Dr. Markus Steilemann, Covestro (Source: nova, PvP)

European eforfuel project started

Kensy — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:00:32 +0000

The 4-year eforfuel project startet in March 2018. Our co-founder Arren Bar-Even is coordinator of the project.

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 .