Illustration: Martin Künsting
The NETPEC Project
NETPEC stands for “Negative Emission Technologies based on PhotoElectroChemical Methods” and is a collaborative research project funded by the BMFTR. The overall goal of the NETPEC project is the development of highly efficient photoelectrochemical approaches to convert carbon dioxide into easily storable, safe and sustainable carbon sink products. This is accompanied by climate modeling, geological reservoir investigations and sustainability analysis, thus making the NETPEC project follow a holistic approach.
The NETPEC consortium is coordinated by the University of Tübingen and it is furthermore embedded in the BMFTR research program on land based CO2 removal (CDRterra).
All contributing researchers and institutions are listed here and the tab “Project” contains more detailed information about the project and its different parts.
(https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202103801)
News
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CDRTerra expert discussion with Matthias May on December 9th
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The second project phase of NETPEC (NETPEC-II) has started
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The article by Aya Mohamed et al. ,”CO2 Reduction on Liquid GaInSn-Metal: Dynamics of the Electrode–Electrolyte Interface”, has been published: https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202401740.
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Earth system modeling paper by Moritz Adam et al. is now published in Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ada971. The paper explores potential impacts of sun-driven CO2 capture, conversion, and sequestration on the Earth system for a number of scenarios. Indirect climate and carbon cycle effects are minimal but high conversion efficiencies crucial to avoid land conversions.
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Daniel Lörchs work on the mechanism of electrochemical CO2 reduction at liquid metal surfaces has appeared in JPCC! https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c05482
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The preprint of Moritz Adams work with the title “Land conversions not climate effects are the dominant consequence of sun-driven CO2 capture, conversion, and sequestration” is now available on EarthArXiv, doi: 10.31223/X5N713
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The preprint by Daniel Lörch on the mechanism of electrochemical CO2 reduction at liquid metal surfaces is now online on chemarxiv, doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-1t2ss
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The paper of Florian Keller “Exploring the Mechanism of the Electrochemical Polymerization of CO2 to Hard Carbon over CeO2(110)” has been published in J. Phys. Chem. C, doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c08356
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The work of the NETPEC consortium, turning CO2 into carbon flakes, has been featured in the science TV-show Nano on 3Sat. Our contribution can be found around minute 15.
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