New EPSRC project to redesign electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction

Posted date: 05 Apr 2022

University of Liverpool researchers have been awarded £250k funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for an ambitious research project that aims to design a new and more economically viable method to convert carbon dioxide to useful products.

The project is one of ten research projects announced today (Thursday, 31 March) by UKRI to support the development of disruptive, adventurous ideas for new materials, devices, fuels and technologies in support of the government’s ambition to achieve a net zero society by 2050.

Carbon dioxide is a waste molecule that is generated by many industries and processes. It can be converted to make energy rich fuels and products such as jet fuel, plastics, medicines but the most promising process to do this, called electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction, is currently too inefficient and costly. A major cause of this is that the process is carried out under conditions where most of the inputted carbon dioxide rapidly reacts with hydroxide in the device and becomes unavailable for conversion. This means that conversion yields are low and costs become high.

Reference Link:https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2022/03/31/new-epsrc-project-to-redesign-electrocatalytic-carbon-dioxide-reduction/

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