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Greenhouse Gas and Pollutant Emission Reductions using Plasma Assisted Combusti...
Greenhouse Gas and Pollutant Emission Reductions using Plasma Assisted Combustion for a Blue Planet
To fight climate change, we must urgently reduce the CO2 emissions caused by fossil-fuel combustion, which represents today over 80% of the primary energy production. Clean electrified solutions are on the horizon but are unlikely...
To fight climate change, we must urgently reduce the CO2 emissions caused by fossil-fuel combustion, which represents today over 80% of the primary energy production. Clean electrified solutions are on the horizon but are unlikely to reach commercial development before 2040. Novel CO2-neutral (biofuels) or CO2-free (H2) combustion technologies are widely considered, but these technologies face increasingly stringent regulations on pollutant emissions, in particular nitric oxides and carbon monoxide. To reduce pollutants, the strategy is to use low-temperature flames. However, these flames are prone to instabilities and extinction, thus causing safety issues. Plasma-assisted combustion (PAC) is a highly promising method to stabilize low-temperature flames thanks to the extraordinary ability of plasma discharges to efficiently produce combustion-enhancing radicals. Today, however, their effects on pollutants are poorly understood and their scalability to industrial combustors remains to be proven.
Our goal is to bring PAC to the level of maturity needed to make it practical on real combustion devices. For this, we will first elucidate the thermochemical mechanisms of plasma stabilization in CH4- and H2-air flames and their impact on pollutant emissions. This will require measuring the rates of poorly known reactions involving excited electronic states of molecules with advanced femtosecond optical diagnostics. With this knowledge, we will explore two novel strategies to minimize pollutants. We will then develop a robust and versatile multi-physics model to predict PAC effects in large-scale combustors. The final challenge will be to demonstrate for the first time a stable, low NOx, hydrogen/air flame in a combustor representative of aircraft engines. Beyond combustion, this project will open novel ways to better predict, control, and enhance chemical processes in applications such as hydrogen production, CO2 conversion, bio-decontamination, or materials synthesis.
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Duración del proyecto: 64 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2021-06-28
Fecha Fin: 2026-10-31
Fecha Fin: 2026-10-31
Línea de financiación: concedida
El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2021-06-28
Línea de financiación objetivo
El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-2020-ADG:
ERC ADVANCED GRANT
Cerrada
hace 4 años
Presupuesto
El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a
2M€
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Perfil tecnológico
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Perfil tecnológico
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4-5
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