Summary:
PROMOTEE has been created as a complex European project aiming at the development of novel porous carbon materials for energy and environmental applications using low value coal-derived liquids as the carbon precursors.
Funder : EU-Research Fund for Coal & Steel (RFCS)
Grant: €2.2m
Duration: October 2016 – March 2020
Project Contributor: Instituto Nacional del Carbón (INCAR-CSIC), Institute Jean Lamour (IJL-CNRS)
Academic and Industrial Partners: INCAR-CSIC, IJL-CNRS, University of Liège (ULG), Bilbaína de Alquitranes, S.A. (BASA), Silcarbon Aktivkohle GmbH (Silcarbon)
Official Website: https://www.promotee-project.eu/ or Click on the project logo to visit their website!
Descriptions
High-value products used in the manufacturing of different chemicals are obtained in the separation of coal tar by distillation. However, low-value liquids such as creosotes, light oils or phenolic oils are also produced in this process. PROMOTEE is a European project with the main objective to obtain different novel activated carbons (ordered mesoporous and carbon gels) for CO2 capture using these low-value coal-derived liquids as precursors using specific templates. The advantage of these novel activated carbons is a better control of the porous structure of the material.
In this project there are different institutions: Universities, Research centres and private companies, which are responsible for different tasks, such as the production of the activated carbons by different activation processes, to provide the low-value liquids and the evaluation of the activated carbons for different energy processes.
At Heriot-Watt, our objective is to evaluate and determine the best-activated carbons produced in the different universities and research centres and correlate the production process, and the properties and characteristics of the materials with their CO2 capture capacities.
For more details click the image and visit PROMOTEE project website.
Project Updates :
14 June 2014 – Internal Progress meeting