{"id":136989,"date":"2024-01-12T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=136989"},"modified":"2024-01-06T08:35:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T07:35:14","slug":"novel-catalyst-system-for-co2-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/novel-catalyst-system-for-co2-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Catalyst System for CO2\u00a0Conversion\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Kevinjeorjios Pellumbi (l.) and Ulf-Peter Apfel conduct research at Ruhr University Bochum and at Fraunhofer UMSICHT.
\u00a9 RUB, Marquard<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Research groups around the world are developing technologies to convert carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sub>) into raw materials for industrial applications. Most experiments under industrially relevant conditions have been carried out with heterogeneous electrocatalysts, i.e. catalysts that are in a different chemical phase to the reacting substances. However, homogeneous catalysts, which are in the same phase as the reactants, are generally considered to be more efficient and selective. To date, there haven\u2019t been any set-ups where homogeneous catalysts could be tested under industrial conditions. A team headed by Kevinjeorjios Pellumbi and Professor Ulf-Peter Apfel from Ruhr University Bochum and the Fraunhofer UMSICHT in Oberhausen has now closed this gap. The researchers outlined their findings in the journal \u201cCell Press Physical Science\u201d. The article was published in print on December 13, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOur work aims to push the boundaries of technology in order to establish an efficient solution for CO2<\/sub>\u00a0conversion that will transform the climate-damaging gas into a useful resource,\u201d says Ulf-Peter Apfel<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

His group collaborated with the team led by Professor Wolfgang Sch\u00f6fberger from the Johannes Kepler University Linz and researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversion of CO2 using electrocatalysis<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Kevinjeorjios Pellumbi with the experimental setup for CO2<\/sub>\u00a0conversion
\u00a9 RUB, Marquard<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The team explored the conversion of CO2<\/sub> using electrocatalysis. In the process, a voltage source supplies electrical energy, which is fed to the reaction system via electrodes and drives the chemical conversions at the electrodes. A catalyst facilitates the reaction; in homogeneous electrocatalysis, the catalyst is usually a dissolved metal complex. In a so-called gas diffusion electrode, the starting material CO2<\/sub> flows past the electrode, where the catalysts convert it into carbon monoxide. The latter, in turn, is a common starting material in the chemical industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers integrated the metal complex catalysts into the electrode surface without bonding them to it chemically. They showed that their system could efficiently convert CO2<\/sub>: It generated current densities of more than 300 milliamperes per square centimeter. Moreover, the system remained stable for over 100 hours without showing any signs of decay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No need to anchor the catalyst<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

All this means that homogeneous catalysts can generally be used for electrolysis cells. \u201cHowever, they do require a specific electrode composition,\u201d stresses Ulf-Peter Apfel. More specifically, the electrodes must enable direct gas conversion without solvents so that the catalyst isn\u2019t leached from the electrode surface. Contrary to what is often described in specialist literature, there\u2019s no need for a carrier material that chemically couples the catalyst to the electrode surface.<\/p>\n\n\n

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With this electrolysis cell, the researchers showed that homogeneous catalysts can be used for CO2<\/sub> conversion.
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\u201cOur findings open up the possibility of testing and integrating high-performance and easily variable homogeneous electrocatalysts in application scenarios for electrochemical processes,\u201d concludes Apfel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Funding<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The research was funded by Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, the German Research Foundation as part of the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV (EXC 2033 \u2013 390677874) and the project with the funding code APAP242\/9, the Fraunhofer Attract program (097-602175), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the \u201cNanoMatFutur\u201d project (03XP0421), the Mercator Research Center Ruhr (projects DIMENSION\/Ex-2021-0034 and KataSign\/Ko-2021-0016), the Austrian Science Fund FWF (projects P28167 and P32045) and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (project 883671).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original publication<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kevinjeorjios Pellumbi et al.: Pushing the Ag-Loading of CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Electrolyzers to the Minimum via Molecularly Tuned Environments, in: Cell Reports Physical Science, 2023<\/em>, DOI: 10.2139\/ssrn.4540759<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research groups around the world are developing technologies to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into raw materials for industrial applications. Most experiments under industrially relevant conditions have been carried out with heterogeneous electrocatalysts, i.e. catalysts that are in a different chemical phase to the reacting substances. However, homogeneous catalysts, which are in the same phase as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"Homogeneous catalysts investigated under industrial conditions","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[10744,10416,14144,10743],"supplier":[187,1544,20500,303,20366,8277,23318,4480,1806],"class_list":["post-136989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-carboncapture","tag-circulareconomy","tag-electrolysis","tag-useco2","supplier-bundesministerium-fuer-bildung-und-forschung-bmbf","supplier-deutsche-forschungsgemeinschaft-dfg","supplier-fonds-der-chemischen-industrie","supplier-fraunhofer-institut-fuer-umwelt-sicherheits-und-energietechnik-umsicht","supplier-fritz-haber-institute","supplier-universitat-linz","supplier-mercator-research-center-ruhr-mercur","supplier-sterreichische-forschungsfoerderungsgesellschaft-ffg","supplier-ruhr-universitaet-bochum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136989"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=136989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}