The Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ is generating new know-how within the field of atmospheric carbon dioxide research
The C1 Value programme is aimed at making scientific breakthroughs, generating new know-how and boosting Finland’s scientific competence within the field of atmospheric carbon dioxide research. Nine research consortia received a total of six million euros in funding in Finland.
The research subjects include chemical reactions which can be used to transform carbon dioxide into fuel or raw material for the chemical industry, reaction routes, enzymes and catalysts, and improving the energy efficiency of carbon dioxide recovery.
The COOLCAT-consortium lead by professor Karoliina Honkala from the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ got over 400 000 euros to develop more efficient catalysts to convert carbon dioxide to fuels. The research team in Jyväskylä will focus on exploring microscopic properties of the studied reaction and catalyst materials using advanced computational methods in supercomputers provided by IT Center for Science. The obtained information will be utilized to develop new catalysts.
Karoliina Honkala is working in Nanoscience center. Co-PI Prof. Riikka Puurunen from Aalto University is in charge of the experimental part of the project.
University lecturer Manu Lahtinen from the Department of Chemistry at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ received nearly 310,000 € funding for a project where consortium of three universities are working together to develop direct carbon capture from air through a TPSA process (temperature-pressure-swing adsorption). The consortium also includes Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) and Lappeenrannan-Lahti University of Technology (LUT).
The Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥'s role in the research is to develop porous adsorbent materials for selective carbon dioxide capture that are based on metal organic frameworks (MOFs). Research areas include: synthesis, structural chemical e.g. X-ray diffraction) and thermoanalytical characterization of the compounds.
The materials produced in the research will be utilized in other sub-projects of the consortium that focus on their study on adsorption properties, flow modelling (VTT Oy), as well as life cycle assessment and techno-economic analyses (LUT).
The consortium of the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ and the University of Eastern Finland aims develop technologies that enable capture and utilization of the C1 compounds directly from the gas phase applying metal organic framework (MOF) catalyzed conversion.
As a part of a research professor Kari Rissanen from the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ got funding of 210 000 euros. Rissanen works at the Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥.
Link to Academy of Finland's release:
For further information:
Professor Karoliina Honkala, karoliina.honkala@jyu.fi, tel. + 358 40 805 3686
Senior Lecturer Manu Lahtinen, manu.k.lahtinen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 40 805 3696
Professor Kari Rissanen, kari.t.rissanen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 50 562 3712
Communications officer Tanja Heikkinen, tanja.s.heikkinen@jyu.fi, tel. +358 50 581 8351
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