The consortium, which also includes the Polish company Omnikom and the German company ENVIMAC Engineering, will work on novel technologies to recover CO2 from flue gases, exhaust fumes and pollutants and contaminants in industrial plants.
The authors of the project proposal thus justified their application: 'In Poland 95% of the energy comes from coal combustion, whereas Poland and Germany together emit 25% of the carbon dioxide produced in Europe in energy production. It is imperative to improve currently existing technologies of carbon dioxide recovery from flue gases before alternative energy production methods are sufficiently developed'.
The objective of the INVITES project is to develop novel solutions for CO2 recovery from gases the investment and maintenance costs of which will be lower than the costs of currently available technologies. Introduction of new devices combined with biochemical or chemical absorption activators is expected to reduce negative impact of CO2 capture on the efficiency of energy generation. New methods of designing both devices for power plants, cement plants and chemical industry will be developed with the aid of computer technology and Life Cycle Analysis, reports prof. Andrzej Górak, project manager and ambassador of Polish - German cooperation who collaborates with WIPOŚ and TU Dortmund.
The project received a grant from the NCBR in the 2nd Call for Proposals on Polish - German sustainability research (“STAIR”) administered by the NCBR and the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Recently, this is the second project that has been carried out by WIPOŚ in collaboration with German scientists.
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