From Sunlight and CO2 to Storable Energy Carriers: Plasma Enhanced Solar-thermal CO2 Transformation

June 8th, 2022

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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