20 June 2022
CAPTACO2 project, led by PhD student Anna Mas, which is looking for the most efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from the environment using a small-sized capture module, is yielding very interesting data. Adjusting all the elements that integrate the Read More …
1 June 2022
GRAFECO2, a project developing graphene and its combination with different materials for atmospheric carbon dioxide capture, has successfully completed its first phase. In it, the PhD candidate Elizabeth Martínez has synthesized and characterized more than twenty types of different samples, Read More …
22 October 2021
CAPTACO2 project begins a new testing phase. Firstly because it uses a new module, designed to be easily assembled and with a higher capacity than older modules. And secondly because it uses a migrogc, a small gas chromatograph, to analyze Read More …
22 October 2021
GRAFECO2 project is going forward. New techniques and methods are being tested and developed in the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona, where the project is taking place. The CO2 adsortion experiment is placed in the laboratory of the DIOPMA Read More …
30 March 2021
GRAFECO2 project has successfully accomplished its first milestone after having synthesized a first complete set of testing samples. These samples will now be tested to determine, for each of them, its adsortion capacity and adsortion speed. The test will expose Read More …
10 March 2021
Greennova Foundation has signed a new agreement with Rovira i Virgili University and Eurecat to continue CAPTACO2 project development during three more years. According to this new agreement the project evolves into an industrial PhD in which a PhD student Read More …
16 October 2020
Greennova Foundation kickstarts GRAFECO2, a new project which following Greennova’s purpose, will fight global warming and climate change by removing greenhouse effect gases from the atmosphere. GRAFECO2 is going to investigate different ways graphene structures can be used to capture Read More …
21 September 2020
Coming back from mandatory confinement, CAPTACO2 project team has decided to try a new approach in order to increase carbon dioxide (CO2) capturing efficiency. This approach changes the chemical reaction. Instead of an hydroxide, the absorbent solution uses Carbonic Anhydrase Read More …
23 December 2019
While membrane development is going on in the laboratory testing new materials and compositions, other elements such as fluid dynamics, usability and dimensional constraints need to be adressed thinking in the final CO2 capturing device. For this purpose the team Read More …
4 November 2019
DIPA stands for diisopropylamine, a secondary amine which industry uses to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from combustion and flue gases. Adding DIPA to a standard polysulfone membrane may improve its CO2 capturing performance, and this is our next step in Read More …
22 September 2019
The results obtained with the bigger module (https://blog.greennova.org/en/projects/captaco2-testing-with-the-big-module-starts/) have forced the Eurecat team to start another type of tests. The motive: the system has a good carbon dioxide capturing efficiency, but it drops after some time. This could happen because Read More …
3 June 2019
With the objective to check the scalability of the results of Doctor Adrianna Nogalska’s thesis (which is the base to develop the project as previously explained), testing of a bigger module has started at Eurecat labs in Tarragona. The module, Read More …
20 May 2019
As the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (ipcc.ch) states, climate change is caused by the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases. This increase has taken place during the last 200 years and is the consequence of the activities we develop as Read More …
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