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Abstract
A major task addressed in the Strategic Energy Technology Plan of the
EU is the sustainable power generation from fossil fuels. A crucial step
here is the separation of CO2 from flue gas. INTERACT investigates the scientific and technological
basis of radically innovative materials and processes. Strong
improvement of the energy penalty of the capture process below 5 %
points and reduction of the CO2 capture costs significantly
below 50 % by simultaneously substantially decreasing the footprint of
power plants and thus the environmental impact. INTERACT follows the
idea of the concurrent engineering in which new materials for CO2
capture i.e. membranes, highly efficient nanomaterials and biological
absorbents are combined with innovative technologies resulting in real
breakthroughs towards next generation carbon capture technologies.
The general concept of INTERACT is to open new pathways for development
of high-potential novel processes for post combustion CO2
capture based on new materials, using poly(ionic liquid)s and/or
enzymes, integrated into gas separation technologies such as gas
separation membranes, absorption in columns and absorption using
membrane contactors, resulting in process intensification.
Several innovative absorbents and adsorbents - the main bottleneck of
the conventional processes - will be in depth analysed for applications
in different unit process operations (see figure RuD interactions).
Tests in full scale for long term operation under realistic operating
conditions will confirm their feasibility. It will result of proof of
concept for the most suitable combination of new "material by design"
and innovative technology.
