February 7, 2023

CO2 conversion to DME: techno-economic analysis

Discover the last paper of TU/e in collaboration with ENGIE, on “Techno-economic assessment of the one-step CO2 conversion to dimethyl ether in a membrane-assisted process” published in Journal of CO2 utilization”! Authors: Serena Poto, Thomas Vink, Pierre Oliver, Fausto Gallucci, M. Fernanda Neira d’Angel Journal of CO2 Utilization, Volume 69, March 2023, 102419 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2023.102419 Abstract This …

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December 13, 2022

1000 hours of CO2 capture and regeneration from blast furnace gas achieved!

C2FUEL is happy to announce, after minor technical difficulties and a global pandemic, that the first 1000-hour degradation campaign of a CO2 capture solvent (30wt% MEA) with industrial blast-furnace gas has been achieved. The demonstration – using a minipilot conceived by ENGIE Lab CRIGEN and CNRS-LRGP – was conducted on the DK6 site in Dunkirk, …

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December 7, 2022

C2FUEL 42 Month General Assembly meeting: one year to the end!

The 42 Month General Assembly meeting took place at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany on 29 and 30 November 2022. During those two days of meeting, the partners shared their results and fruitful discussions took place to setup the last phase of the project: the full-scale demonstration of the pilot for DME production from CO2 capture …

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September 5, 2022

C2FUEL Newsletter #3 released!

The third C2FUEL newsletter is released at https://mailchi.mp/1fd06087eea5/c2fuel-newsletter3 ! Please have a look to our progress and activities! The first 36 months of C2FUEL project have been dedicated to pave the way towards the development of the different demonstration pilots that will be erected in the DK6 power plant. Next step is the final demonstration …

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September 1, 2022

GENDER equality within the C2FUEL project

2019 statistics coming from “She figures – Gender in Research and Innovation Statistics and Indicators 2021” were compared to C2FUEL figures: 41.3% of women in the population of employed scientists and engineers 32.8% of women of the total population of researchers at European level (average growth rate of 3.9% between 2010 and 2018) 53.7% of …

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May 17, 2022

C2FUEL results at the American Catalysis event, NAM27 !

The 27th meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, NAM27, is the premier scientific event in the field of catalysis research and development in 2022. It will be held in Ney York city, USA on May 22-27, 2022. It will be the opportunity for our youg C2FUEL researchers from TU/e to present their latest results …

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February 11, 2022

ELCOGEN takes a new step for C2FUEL!

The C2Fuel project is progressing well! The assembly of the hydrogen pressurization container of the High Temperature Electrolysis System (HTES) was completed by ELCOGEN this week! The whole system will be installed in Dunkirk in France in 2022. One of the main objectives of C2Fuel is to develop a high temperature electrolysis demonstration unit producing …

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November 5, 2021

C2Fuel at the 6th CINEA workshop on CCUS technologies

C2FUEL project management ENGIE team, has attended on the 23-24 September 2021 the 6th CINEA workshop of H2020 Carbon Capture Storage/Use (CCS/CCU) and Alternative Fuels. This event gathered no less than 31 European projects funded by the Horizon 2020 program. It was a great opportunity to present the C2FUEL project advancements and build new opportunities …

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July 1, 2019

C2FUEL kick-off meeting

C2FUEL kick-off meeting has been successfully held in Dunkirk on 1st-2nd July of 2019. The kick-off meeting was ended by a visit of DK6 power plant site where one of C2FUEL pilot demonstration systems will be installed and tested.

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