{"id":71866,"date":"2020-02-21T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T06:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=71866"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:21:46","slug":"project-of-the-month-converting-carbon-dioxide-into-a-raw-material-for-increased-sustainability-and-a-more-circular-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/project-of-the-month-converting-carbon-dioxide-into-a-raw-material-for-increased-sustainability-and-a-more-circular-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Project of the Month: Converting carbon dioxide into a raw material for increased sustainability and a more circular economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) utilisation platform technology behind the EU-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbon4pur.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carbon4PUR<\/a> project (Turning industrial waste gases (mixed CO\/CO<sub>2<\/sub> streams) into intermediates for polyurethane plastics for rigid foams\/building insulation and coatings) was recently nominated as a finalist for the very prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutscher-zukunftspreis.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German President\u2019s Award<\/a> (Deutscher Zukunftspreis).<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71868\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-71868\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/413330.jpg\" alt=\"413330\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/02\/413330.jpg 688w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/02\/413330-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2020\/02\/413330-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 DECHEMA-COVESTRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This award celebrates outstanding ideas and innovations in the science and technology industries. Whilst they remained one of the three nominees, we feel that the unprecedented idea of making polyurethane out of CO<sub>2<\/sub> definitely makes them a winner in our eyes as this month\u2019s Project of the Month! Carbon4PUR is outstanding due to its innovative carbon capture and utilisation technology that partly replaces fossil-based raw material with CO<sub>2<\/sub> for use in the chemicals and plastics industries.<\/p>\n<p>The novel process aims at using mixtures of CO<sub>2<\/sub> and carbon monoxide (CO) that are generated during steel production to produce polyols \u2013 key components of polyurethane-based insulating materials and coatings that are otherwise obtained from crude oil. The project\u2019s industrial symbiosis makeup is a crucial part of CO<sub>2<\/sub> and CO utilisation and the project is also very much in step with the European Commission\u2019s recently announced Green New Deal.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, we invite you to read our detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/article\/id\/411630-how-a-team-of-finalists-for-the-german-president-s-award-is-giving-carbon-a-second-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CORDIS news article<\/a> on Carbon4PUR and the award!<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in having your project featured in \u2018Project of the Month\u2019 in an upcoming issue, please send us an email to <a href=\"mailto:editorial@cordis.europa.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorial@cordis.europa.eu<\/a> and tell us why!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carbon dioxide (CO2) utilisation platform technology behind the EU-funded Carbon4PUR project (Turning industrial waste gases (mixed CO\/CO2 streams) into intermediates for polyurethane plastics for rigid foams\/building insulation and coatings) was recently nominated as a finalist for the very prestigious German President\u2019s Award (Deutscher Zukunftspreis). This award celebrates outstanding ideas and innovations in the science [&#8230;]<\/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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,5571],"tags":[5847,10744,10416,10743],"supplier":[10858,331,1871],"class_list":["post-71866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-co2-based","tag-bioplastics","tag-carboncapture","tag-circulareconomy","tag-useco2","supplier-covestro-group","supplier-dechema-gesellschaft-fuer-chemische-technik-und-biotechnologie-ev","supplier-cordis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71866","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=71866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71866"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=71866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}