Newsletters from Carena

June 1^st marked the end of an EU FP7 funded project “Catalytic membrane Reactors based on New mAterials for C1-C4 valorization” (CARENA). The four year EU-funded collaborative project aimed to create technologies for an efficient conversion of light alkanes and CO₂ into higher value chemicals. The project partners included six companies, two SMEs, two research institutes and six universities and a European network.

Elizabeth Shotton, Anna Kroner and Claire Pizzey from Diamond’s Industrial Liaison team, were co-investigators on the project and worked closely with other project partners by designing and performing experiments and helping to analyse the data. Anna also led the development of a microreactor sample environment to mimic the conditions experienced by catalytic materials during industrial processes for in situ experiments. The microreactor is now available for both industrial and academic users of Diamond and has proved immensely popular.

Of course, across the entire CARENA project, a wide number of projects were ongoing ranging from the design of materials right through to pilot scale reactor systems. Details of the projects, the organisation of CARENA and the events organised can be found in the newsletters below.