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Project

CO2 for energy storage (EnOp)

Acronym
EnOp
Code
41V05616W
Duration
01 September 2016 → 31 August 2019
Funding
European funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Biomaterials engineering
    • Biological system engineering
    • Biomaterials engineering
    • Biomechanical engineering
    • Other (bio)medical engineering
    • Environmental engineering and biotechnology
    • Industrial biotechnology
    • Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering
Keywords
energy storage
Other information
 
Project description
 

The project objective of EnOp is the development and demonstration of embryonic CO2 conversion technologies for the storage of sustainably generated energy. The ultimate goal is a set of demonstrators and working pilots that convert sunlight or sustainably generated electricity into chemical energy carriers and / or specialty chemicals

 
Role of Ghent University
 Ghent university participated by developing a scaled-up bioelectrochemical system for conversion, extraction and conversion of CO2 into useable carbon molecules. The process is based on microbial electrosynthesis (MES) where bacteria are able to use electricity to convert CO2 into organic molecules.
 
 
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