HORIZON 2020 - Diamonds could help slow climate change

Researchers are building a diamond-based device that can remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and transform it into valuable chemicals, including fuel.

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Environment & climate action Future and emerging technologies France Germany Sweden United Kingdom

date: 22/12/2016

Project: Diamond materials for the photocatalytic...

acronym: DIACAT

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The technology being developed by the EU-funded DIACAT project could help reduce emissions from power stations by capturing the carbon currently emitted as CO2 and transforming it into chemicals such as hydrocarbons or methanol. These could then be used as a fuel, for example to power cars, or as ingredients for new chemicals.

‘At the moment we use fossil fuels to produce chemicals or to fuel our cars or to heat our homes, and that produces as a side product CO2,’ said Professor Anke Krueger from Würzburg University, Germany, who leads the project.