DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL ELECTROTHERMAL FLUIDISED BED REACTOR
The consortium has finalised the reactor design and demonstrated the feasibility of the electrothermal fluidised bed (ETFB) reactor prototype. Challenges in construction, raised by highly corrosive atmosphere and high operating temperatures (>1000 °C), have been successfully overcome by selecting special highperformance materials for ETFB reactor manufacturing. To progress on the integrated pilot, a first version of P&ID has been consolidated. Then, a preliminary HAZOP has been performed. A mass and energy balance sheet of core e-CODUCT technology, with a black box diagram model, TEA and LCA models and an industrial planning tool are under development.

CONVERSION OF CO₂ AND H₂S INTO VALUABLE CHEMICALS USING RENEWABLE ENERGY
Catalytic tests have demonstrated the conversion of acid gas (H2S and CO2 mixture) into COS under mild conditions, leading to the selection of high performing catalysts able to generate a pure stream of products. The catalysts are shaped into extrudates with optimized formulation to be used in industrial reactors. Then, COS is decomposed to CO and S using newly developed ETFB reactor technology. CO is furthermore valorised continuously into platform molecules, such as methanol (CH3OH) in a high-pressure fixed-bed catalytic reactor, while S is directly recovered as marketable product.