European

Atmospheric Pressure Gliding-arc Plasmas for the Sustainable Production of Ammonia and Hydrogen

Financial source:  European Union

Code:  US‐1380977

Acronym: ARCPLAS

Principal Investigator:
Ana Mª Gómez Ramírez, José Cotrino Bautista

Period:
01-01-2020/ 31-05-2023

Research team: Ana Borrás, Victor Rico. 

 

Work team doctors: Agustín R. González-Elipe, Joël Francois Tsoplefack, Paula de Navascués Garvín

Research team: Javier Brey Sánchez, Juan Rodríguez Archilla, Jesús Cuevas Maraver, Alberto Palmero Acevedo, Rafael Álvarez Molina

This project aims at developing gas chemical transformation processes through atmospheric pressure plasma technologies that use electricity as a direct energy vector. Specifically, the objective is to fine-tune a Plasma Atmospheric Gliding Arc Reactor (PAAD) to induce two processes of great industrial and environmental impact, such as the synthesis of ammonia (NH3) and the production of hydrogen (H2) from hydrocarbons and alcohols. 

 

Sin categoría

Marie Curie Project. PlasmaPerovSol

 

01/01/2016  –  Project Starts!

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 661480.

 

07/02/2016  –  A synchrotron project at DESY, Hamburg has been granted. The project “One-Dimensional conformal perovskite-based solar cells fabricated by a full plasma and vacuum integrated process” will allow to measure the different components of the solar cells by Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS). More Information at:

http://photon-science.desy.de/facilities/petra_iii/beamlines/p03_minaxs/index_eng.html

 

05/05/2016  –  One-Reactor System:

 

15/05/2016  –  Juan Ramon Sanchez-Valencia receives the 4th award “Manuel Losada Villasante” to the excellence in investigation and innovation.

A short interview after this award  is available at:

http://play.cadenaser.com/audio/003RD010000000478256/

Some other links:

http://www.diariodesevilla.es/sevilla/Luces-puerta-Carmona_0_1078092826.html

https://elpais.com/ccaa/2016/11/02/andalucia/1478102329_311013.html

http://comunicacion.us.es/centro-de-prensa/institucional/fallados-los-premios-losada-villasante

 

 

01/06/2016  – Interview with SOLAND, a a technology park of excellence focussed on renewable energies and eco-innovation.

http://www.solandalucia.es/es/noticias/andalucia-ha-multiplicado-por-seis-produccion-renovable-solar-en-ultimos-10-anos

 

15/06/2016  –  First GISAXS results …

 

25/11/2016  –  Assistance to an specialized course about Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for advanced optical characterization given by J.A. Woollam Co. at the University of Cadiz.

23/12/2016  –  NFFA proposal has been satisfactorily evaluated and will allow to access advanced characterization techniques such as Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) measurements.

http://www.nffa.eu/

 

22/02/2017  –  Training for the new Scanning Electron Microscope in the University Pablo de Olavide. The system is equipped (among others) with a 4-tip micromanipulator that can be used for electrical measurements.

 

22/03/2017  –  A new Article has just been accepted in Nanoscale. And it has been selected as the journal Cover.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/NR/C7NR00923B#!divAbstract

 

05/05/2016  –  One-Reactor System is connected to the Glovebox and the Plasma source is fully operative.

 

19/04/2017  –  A new Article has just been accepted in Advanced Materials Interfaces. And it has been selected as the journal Cover.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/admi.201601233/full

 

01/06/2017  –  Adrien Soloy, a master student from the University of Lille has arrived to perform a two months secondment at our Laboratory. He will fabricate perovskite based solar cells.

 

29/05/2017  –  A new Article has just been accepted in ECS Transactions.

http://ecst.ecsdl.org/content/77/3/9.abstract

 

29/05/2017  –  A new open access Article has just been accepted in Scientific Reports.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-09601-7