New electrochemical solutions for industrial processing, which contribute to a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions
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27 April 2017 17:05
FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS
H2020-IND-CE-2016-2017 (FOF (rtd) + SPIRE 2017 TOPICS)
Published: 14 October 2015
Deadline: 19 January 2017
Available budget: FOF(rtd) 86.18 M€ + SPIRE 82.11 M€
The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call.
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
SPIRE
Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 55
Number of inadmissible proposals: 1
Number of ineligible proposals: 0
Number of above-threshold proposals:19
Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 99,381,088.79 €
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.
25 January 2017 17:08
Deadline: 19.01.2017
A total of 234 proposals were submitted in response to this call.
The number of proposals for this topic is shown below:
SPIRE-10-2017: 10
18 January 2017 07:46
Rules of Participation:
From 1 January 2017 Switzerland is associated to the whole Horizon 2020 programme, including the Societal Challenge calls. For more information please read the information sheet available here.
05 December 2016 14:41
FAQs 2017:
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20 September 2016 00:30
The submission session is now available for: SPIRE-10-2017(RIA).
03 August 2016 16:30
A revised version of the Work programme 2016-2017 has been adopted in 25/07/2016.
The main changes in the call Industry 2020 in the Circular Economy sub-call Circular Economy concern:
- New evaluation criteria and evaluation procedures for all topics.
Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2017 update
After the update to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2017 of 25 July 2016,
the following updates were made:
- Open Access Data new provisions have been added for 2017 calls with an opening date on or after 26/07/2016.
- The text for evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and procedure has been clarified.
- The introduction of SPIRE topics under the call H2020-IND-CE-2016-17 has been modified.
- The indicative budget for 2017 SPIRE topics under the call H2020-IND-CE-2017 was increased to €82.11 million in 2017.
TOPIC : New electrochemical solutions for industrial processing, which contribute to a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions
| Topic identifier: | SPIRE-10-2017 | ||
| Publication date: | 14 October 2015 | ||
| Types of action: | RIA Research and Innovation action | ||
| DeadlineModel: Planned opening date: |
single-stage 20 September 2016 |
Deadline: | 19 January 2017 17:00:00 |
| Time Zone : (Brussels time) | |||
Topic Description
Specific Challenge:Electrochemical processes have the potential to be highly efficient and thereby create less by-product waste compared to conventional chemical processes. Important reasons for the industrial interest include the use of less expensive starting materials, less aggressive process conditions (e.g. lower temperatures with less degradation of feed and/or product), fewer processing steps (for example electrochemical synthesis and product separation may be combined in one reactor), precise control of oxidation or reduction level by control of electrode potential and discovery of unique processing routes to establish new markets for products. In addition, electrochemical processes have the potential to replace polluting chemical reactions with more environmentally friendly electrochemical reactions.
Despite the large number of chemicals available in the market, electrochemical synthesis of chemicals has until now been limited to a narrow spectrum. However, advances in electrochemical synthesis and methods are now possible and facilitated by recent developments in materials science, nanotechnology, and by the development of new in-situ analytical techniques or the progress in multi-scale modelling. This provides opportunities for new approaches for the electrochemical manufacturing of products.
Intensive research into organic and inorganic electrochemical processing promises major developments in different applications, specifically with the prospect of greatly reduced electricity consumption and the use of electrical power generated from environmentally friendly production processes like wind and solar energy, thereby contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Scope:Proposals should develop new electrochemical methodologies for industrial processing and provide a proof of the economic and industrial feasibility of the new technologies. The proposed solutions should also have the potential for integration into existing industrial operations. A prospect for a wider impact of the proposed solutions on the process industry is also needed.
Important aspects that should be taken into account are:
- Easy integration with renewable energy (electricity from renewable production sources).
- Electrochemical synthesis and/or electrolysis which allows the direct creation of products (e.g. fuels, chemicals, metals, nanomaterials and new functional surface layers).
- Ease of operation at low temperature and pressure conditions.
- Integration of product produced into existing storage and supply infrastructures.
- Significant improvements in energy and resource efficiency compared to the commercially available analogue (or similar process) with reduction of direct and/or indirect greenhouse gas emissions.
- Improvement in safety and the work environment.
- Life Cycle Assessment to provide a basis for environmental sustainability.
Projects will carry out demonstration activities in industrial environments aimed at confirming the industrial relevance and feasibility of the proposed technologies, showing the potential for integration in existing operations.
Activities are expected to focus on Technology Readiness Levels 4 to 6.This topic addresses cross-KET activities.
This topic is particularly suitable for SMEs.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 4 and 6 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
Expected Impact:- Decrease by 25% of energy use compared to related non-electrochemical processes
- Decrease by 30% of Green House Gases emissions compared to related non-electrochemical processes
- Strengthen the global position of European process industry through the wide adoption of new technologies related to electrochemical processing of materials in the different application actions.
Proposals should include a business case and exploitation strategy, as outlined in the Introduction to the LEIT part of this Work Programme.
