The AMT Institute’s project on developing a "green" technology for CO2 conversion received a grant from the Russian Science Foundation

Last month the Russian Science Foundation supported two projects of MIET scientific groups, one of which was the project "Development of a "green" technology for CO2 conversion based on the synergy of the effects of an electric field, electromagnetic radiation and temperature" conducted by the employees of the Institute of Advanced Materials and Technologies.

The development of an efficient "green" CO2 conversion technology that solves the problem of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere can have a significant economic and social effect.

The scientific work carried out by the scientific group of Dmitry Gromov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor and Chief Researcher of the Institute of AMT is aimed at improving the “green” carbon dioxide conversion technologies to minimize emissions and their utilization.

The scientists decided to effect specially selected catalytic systems based on oxide semiconductors with a combination of an electric field, electromagnetic radiation and temperature. Presumably, this will make it possible to significantly increase their catalytic activity and the yield of the carbon dioxide conversion product, for example, methane and methanol, at room or slightly higher temperatures.

This is a combination of chemical and electrophysical approaches to the integration of catalytic systems based on the analysis of both chemical processes and electrophysical features of materials, such as the generation, transport, and separation of charge carriers. Catalytic process activation by the complex impact of an electric field, light, and temperature in an optimal combination can lead to an increased catalytic activity of the semiconductor oxide and, as a result, to higher productivity of the entire CO2 utilization process.

The studied sample (schematically, on the left) and a simplified version of the fossil fuel synthesis reactor (on the right)

Now the scientific group is focused on the development of catalyst materials and the manufacture of their samples, as well as on the development of the design and layout of the reactor for the gas catalysis process.