The University of British Columbia

$675,000.00 CAD

≈ 9 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2023-2024
Agreement period
June 20, 2023 – March 31, 2026
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2023-2024-Q1-1004021

Published purpose

The Project is designed to accelerate the development of a reactor (a “bicarbonate electrolyser”) that converts CO2 capture solutions into methane, a valuable commodity chemical. The Project team will expand upon an existing self-driving lab at UBC to make and test electrolyser components faster than is possible manually. The overarching Project goal is to use data produced with this self-driving lab, coupled with a multiphysics model created with the NRC, to demonstrate methane production in a bicarbonate electrolyser with a partial current density (jCH4) of >200 mA/cm2 (e.g., 50% selectivity for methane at a total current density of 400 mA/cm2).

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