Double-Active Membranes for a sustainable CO₂ cycle

The project “Double-Active Membranes for a sustainable CO₂ cycle” (DAM4CO₂) aims to investigate possible ways to convert the carbon dioxide emitted by industries into renewable fuels. It is one of the eight projects, among hundred proposals submitted, funded by the European Innovation Council in the framework of the call “EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Carbon dioxide and Nitrogen management and valorisation” and it is coordinated by the Institute on Membrane Technology of the National Research Council. 

The aim of DAM4CO₂ is to develop a novel membrane technology, for the simultaneous CO₂ separation and its photocatalytic conversion to C₄+ molecules, as renewable fuels. DAM4CO₂ will overcome the conventional membrane technologies by developing double active membranes (DAMs) with a durable and highly selective gas separation layer and a photocatalytic layer able to simultaneously combine in one pot reverse water gas shift (RWGS) and Fisher-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) to obtain C4+ molecules. The project will deliver a prototype, designed using the design-build-test-learn approach, for a proof-of-concept validation that will be tested in lab-conditions. Close attention will be paid to the use of non-critical raw materials at any stage of the process, and the carbon-neutrality in order to reverse the increase of greenhouse gases emissions to mitigate the serious consequences on the global climate and to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal.

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