RASMIA
Towards sustainable energy processes in chemical industry: development of CO2 capture and utilization assisted by microwave heating
RASMIA project entails the transformation of energy intensive chemical industry through microwave heating, a more efficient way of supplying energy to the processes using renewable electricity and avoiding fossil fuels.
This coordinated project, financed by the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry (PID2022-138336OB-C21) will focus on the design of new microwave driven processes for CO2 capture and hydrogen generation by Dry Reforming of Methane (DRM). The goal is to contribute to decarbonisation of chemical industry together with process circularity, since the CO2 captured in the microwave adsorption process constitutes the raw material for dry methane reforming.
RASMIA involves researchers from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (ITACA) of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), belonging to the Microwave Division (ITACA-DIMAS). The coordination of the project is led by researchers from Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR), Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón, INMA, working in the field of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
Continuous evaluation of the results throughout the project will direct RASMIA’s efforts towards optimizing resource efficiency, process scalability, and reducing the cost and carbon footprint compared to the state-of-the-art reference processes of amine absorption for CO2 capture and steam reforming for syngas production.
