CINE Conference 2021: "Overview of CINE activities on ...", by Dr. Fabio Coral Fonseca, IPEN/USP

Опубликовано: 26 Октябрь 2021
на канале: Cine Energy

CINE Conference 2021: "Overview of CINE activities on methane conversion using electrochemistry", by Dr. Fabio Coral Fonseca, IPEN/USP

Modern society is rooted in fossil oil-derived materials that are ubiquitous in our daily life. To achieve the stringent targets of reduction in CO2 emissions in the next decades, the decarbonization of the (petrochemical) industry is imperative. This is a challenging development yet to be fully tackled and that has received much less attention in the research community as compared to the research on low carbon power generation technologies that are nowadays already available and cost-effective. The solid background of our research group on fuel cell technologies, including pioneer work on the use of ethanol as fuel, allowed us to extend the application of such devices as (electro)chemical reactors for value-added molecules using methane and other strategic feedstocks. This overview of the M2P program will cover the main results of the six projects dedicated to methane conversion reactions using fuel cell-like electrochemical reactors. As a new research topic being developed in our group, we have put a great effort in building up a productive scientific environment with modern facilities that enable us to tackle essentially any electrochemical reaction under different conditions from low to high temperature. Such infrastructure along with a vibrant research team have translated in important results which include, new materials such as high-performance anionic polymeric membranes, ion-conducting composite separation membranes, shape-controlled thermally stable nanoceramics for high-temperature catalysis, and in operando detection of methanol in methane-fed fuel cells and photocatalytic reactors.

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