ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Electrified CO2 Capture using HiGee Vortex Reactors
The fossil fuel-driven chemical industry is notorious for its massive CO₂ emissions and energy consumption, demanding an urgent shift toward cleaner, more efficient technologies, with CO₂ capture as a critical component. Existing gas-liquid reactive absorption/solvent regeneration technologies, relying on bulky packed columns or motor-driven rotating packed beds, fall short due to transport limitations and scale-up challenges. e-CAPTURE seeks to revolutionize the field with a scalable and electrified reactor that uses flow kinetic energy to generate powerful centrifugal forces without mechanical rotation, overcoming transport limitations in interphase mass transfer, mixing, and heat…
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