D2M: Dioxide to Monoxide

The D2M project will develop state-of-the-art expertise in Flanders for the catalytic conversion of CO₂ into CO, a large volume chemical that can be directly fed into the chemical, plastics and steelmaking industry (thus on a scale having the potential to make a significant impact with regard to CO₂ emissions).

Novel concepts for six different catalytic routes (homogeneous, heterogeneous, electro-, plasma-, photocatalysis and a chemical looping process) will be investigated, with the main valorisation objective (VO) to deliver a proof-of-concept for each of the latter, hereby moving up the TRL ladder from TRL 1-2 to TRL 3-4.

An additional boundary condition is that the the technologies that will be should have the potential to achieve a higher maximum global warming impact reduction than the dry reforming process.