MOFs As Catalysts and Adsorbents: Discovery and Engeneering of Materials for Industrial Applications

Provider

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Programme

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Call for proposals

FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2

Main participants

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Contest type

RP - Co-financing of EC programme

Contract ID

1089/2011-321

Project name in Czech

MOFs As Catalysts and Adsorbents: Discovery and Engeneering of Materials for Industrial Applications

Annotation in Czech

A major challenge facing European industry involves the development of more specific, energy saving processes with less environmental impact. The recent development of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) may prove a major milestone in achieving these goals.MACADEMIA project is an extension to FP6 STREP (DeSANNS) which highlighted some MOF materials for CO2 capture and storage. It will expand and continue this work on a much larger scale. BASF and TOTAL companies, major industrial partners, complement eachother?s expertise: BASF is one of the few manufacturers of MOFs with unique know-how in up-scaled synthesis and shaping and TOTAL?s focus is on bringing MOFs to key market sectors - gas separation and storage, liquid separation and catalysis. The TOTAL-led consortium, with BASF, then TOTAL PF/RM as industrial partners, 11 academic partners from across EU, one leading South Korean partner, among world leaders in their particular domain of MOF science, will be contributing to the project, with a dedicatedmanagement partner. MACADEMIA intends to produce new MOFs and optimise those already of promising interest, characterise MOFs using specialised techniques, test MOFs using a three-tiered process, use predictive modelling and demonstrate the use of MOFsin key industrial processes. It will target separation processes in gas / vapour phase (propene /propane, acid gases separation, CO2 and H2 purification), in liquid phase (xylene separations, recovery of N- and/or S-compounds from hydrocarbons), and in catalysis (Lewis-acid MOFs as catalysts for epoxide polymerization, redox-active MOFs as catalysts for hydrocarbon autoxidation). Several of MACADEMIA?s targets are expected to reach pilot scale whereas a blue sky approach will be taken for others givingroom for innovation and step change. An attractive project, it is open to young researchers with industrially coordinated research to counterbalance competition from USA and Japan and able to contribute to a strong ERA.

R&D category

ZV - Basic research

CEP classification - main branch

CA - Inorganic chemistry

CEP - secondary branch

CF - Physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry

CEP - another secondary branch

JP - Industrial processes and processing

OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)

10402 - Inorganic and nuclear chemistry<br>10403 - Physical chemistry<br>20501 - Materials engineering<br>20705 - Remote sensing<br>20706 - Marine engineering, sea vessels<br>20707 - Ocean engineering

Provider evaluation

U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)

Project results evaluation

Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.

Realization period - beginning

Jul 1, 2009

Realization period - end

Jun 30, 2013

Project status

U - Finished project

Latest support payment

Feb 27, 2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data delivery code

CEP14-MSM-7E-U/01:1

Data delivery date

Jun 30, 2014

Total approved costs

1,610 thou. CZK

Public financial support

1,610 thou. CZK

Other public sources

0 thou. CZK

Non public and foreign sources

0 thou. CZK