Fuel cell-based technologies are at the center of a clean energy revolution: delivering clean electricity from hydrogen in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, producing heat and power with reduced air pollution from natural gas to up to the tens of megawatts capacity in natural gas fuel cell power plant. Recent developments in molten carbonate and solid oxide cells could enable Fuel Cells to become a game changer in Carbon Capture from fossil fuel power plant and could support the development of a new industrial branch of chemistry from CO₂ feedstock.

The objective of this workshop is to provide a platform to discuss and initiate new research collaborations within the SCCS partnership: to progress alternative CO₂ capture technologies and help develop new areas of industrial CO₂ utilisation.

Confirmed speakers:

• Professor John Irvine (University of St Andrews), Solid Oxide Cells for CO₂ reduction
• Arturo Meléndez-Ceballos (Chimie-Paris Tech), Molten carbonates based technology for carbon capture and CO₂ valorisation
• Mathieu Lucquiaud (SCCS, University of Edinburgh), Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Challenges and opportunities for repowering and retrofitting CO2 capture to existing thermal power plants.
• Professor Fredrik Glasser (University of Aberdeen), CO₂ capture and conversion to useful products
• Jennifer Garden (School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh), New catalytic route to access polymer materials from CO₂
• Vinay Mulgundmath (Doosan Babcock), TBA
• Reuben Carr (Ingenza Ltd), An industrial biotechnology perspective to lower CO₂ emissions in biobased chemical manufacturing

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