From Sunlight and CO2 to Storable Energy Carriers: Plasma Enhanced Solar-thermal CO2 Transformation
R&D Focus Areas:
Direct hydrogen carrier production, Synthetic fuels and chemicals, Advanced manufacturing
Lead Organisation:
CSIRO
Partners:
RMIT University, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Status:
Active
Start date:
February 2022
Completion date:
February 2025
Key contacts:
Dr Yunxia Yang: Yunxia.yang@csiro.au
Funding:
Cash funding supplied through CSIRO.
Project total cost:
AUD$1,150,537 – combined cash and in-kind contribution
Project summary description:
By innovatively incorporating plasma and novel graphene solar thermal heating into a CSIRO invented low temperature CO2 methanation process, the project goal is to invent a highly cost effective and energy efficient process as a game changer to produce renewable energy carriers to promote H2 uptake by market and aid decarbonisation efforts.
Related publications and key links:
- Sana Ullah, Yuan Gao, Liguang Dou, Yadi Liu, Tao Shao, Yunxia Yang, Anthony B. Murphy. Recent trends in plasma-assisted CO2 methanation: A critical review of recent studies, plasma chemistry and plasma processing, accepted.
- Daksh Shah, Yunxia Yang, Andrea Merenda, Adam Lee, Karen Wilson, Tianyi Ma and Baohua Jia, TiO2/CoAl-LDH nanocomposites for CO2 photoreduction, ISGTCO2, Oral presentation
- J. Zhao, Y. Wang, Y. Yang, K. Wilson and A.F. Lee et al. Impact of doping ZrO2 with Sn on CO2 hydrogenation over dispersed Ru. Materials Today Chemistry, accepted, in Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtchem.2023.101665
Higher degree studies supported:
Two PhD students are supported by the project.
Reviewed: October 2023