Projects - SCOPE

EU projects: i) DECADE  (DistributEd Chemicals And fuels production from CO2 in photoelectro-catalytic DEvices), ID: 862030, 1 May 2020 - 31 Jan 2025, INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP, Coordination G Centi, Total cost € 5.358.672,49; ii) SUPERVAL (SUstainable Photo-ElectRochemical VALorization of flue gases), ID: 101115456, EIC, 01 Nov 2023 - 31 Oct. 2026, Total cost: €3,571,708.75; iii) AMAZE (AmMoniA as a ZEro-carbon fuel and H2 carrier), CETPartnership Joint Call 2023. CETP-2023-00120, but UNIME financed by MUR: CETP23_00063, three years from Nov. 1, 2024, tot budget 300.000€ (for UniME), PI G. Centi

National projects: i) MECCA (Green H2 from biomethane cracking through an innovative technology based on non-thermal plasma and nanocarbons), RSH2A_000002, started 1st April 2023 - 31 Dec 2025, total budget  2.835,2 k€, coordinator G. Centi; ii) SCOOP (Novel Solar cells for solar-to-hydrogen COntinuOus Production), J43C24000190005 FISA-2022-00277, 01/06/2024-31/05/2028, tot. budget 1.896.579 €, PI/coordinator S. Perathoner;     

Additionally, G. Centi is a member of the Boards of the large initiatives SUNERGY, from which derives the project SUNER-C (SUNERGY Community and eco-system for accelerating the development of solar fuels and chemicals), ID: 101058481, Digital, Industry and Space, Total cost € 4 026 403,75.

EU or other international projects: 1) 2020-2022: EU-H2020 FTI project “Fertilizer from air by plasma treatment (Sustainable Manure)” (570,740 EUR). 2) 2022: ESA project: “Fixing nitrogen and splitting carbon dioxide on Mars using microwave plasma” (100,000 EUR). 3) 2022-2024: ERC Proof-of-Concept Project “Plasma Reactors for Efficient Fertilizer Production Applied in a Real Environment” (PREPARE) (150,000 EUR). 4) 2022-2026: Horizon Europe RIA “Carbon-neutral Milk” (CANMILK) (502,485 EUR). 5) 2024-2028: HORIZON RIA “Efficient valorisation of CO2 and bio-waste for long-term energy storage using a microwave plasma torch and quenching using the reverse Boudouard reaction (EffiTorch)” (596,963.75 EUR). 6) 2024-2028: HORIZON RIA “Alternative routes for basic chemicals production using hydrogen as feedstock (ALCHEMHY)” (817,500 EUR). 7) 2026-2029: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN project “Next-generation intensified chemical processes integrating plasma and single-atom catalysis (PRIME LEAP)” (577,080 EUR).

National projects: 1) 2020 – 2021: Catalisti – Moonshot SBO project “Power to Chemicals” (165,633 EUR). 2) 2021-2024: Catalisti – Moonshot SBO project “Power to olefins: Electrified steam cracking and plasma booster” (451,978 EUR). 3) 2021-2022: VLAIO Innovation Mandate for Georgi Trenchev: “D-CRBN: CO2 utilization for the circular economy” (141,500 EUR). 4) 2022-2023: FWO project Bio-economy Project: “Valorisation of air borne ammonia emissions of livestock farming by plasma-enabled conversion to ammonium nitrate fertilizer (PNAC process)” (190,000 EUR). 5) 2022-2023: BlueApp Proof-of-Concept Project “Energy‐efficient plasma conversion of greenhouse gases to methanol, the fuel of the future” (OPTANIC) (100,000 EUR). 6) 2022-2025: FWO-FNRS EOS (Excellence of Science) project: “Plasma-based green hydrogen synthesis from hydrocarbons (PLASyntH2)” (1,000,000 EUR). 7) 2022-2025: Project of the Energy Transition Fund “Cracking of green ammonia to hydrogen using innovative catalyst and adsorbent assisted plasma technology” (HyPACT) (305,670 EUR). 8) 2023-2024: VLAIO-ICON project “BluePlasma” with several companies (920,250 EUR). 9) 2024-2025: Bilateral project with TotalEnergies: “Plasma catalysis for CO2 conversion to CO (PLASCO).” (250,000 EUR). 10) 2025-2029: FWO-SBO project “Innovative process integration for CO2 conversion to sustainable aviation fuels” (300,000 EUR). 11) 2025-2028: Project of the Energy Transition Fund “Cracking of green ammonia to hydrogen using innovative catalyst and adsorbent assisted plasma technology - lab pilot-scale demonstration” (HyPACT2) (623,471 EUR) . 12) 2026-2030: VLAIO Baekeland fellowship for Amira Vandenbroucke: “Tailoring syngas from methane and higher hydrocarbons: atmospheric plasma reforming with CO2.” (462,000 EUR)

EU projects: i) Hosting two Marie-Curie fellowships. H2020-MSCA-COFUND, Grant No. 754382  (Dr Wong) 2020-2022.H2020-MSCA-COFUND, Grant No. 899987, EuroTechPostdoc2 fellowship (Dr Wong) 2023-2025. ii) ERC Proof of Concept Lump Sum Grant 2023-1 (ERC-2023-PoC1). Metahydro 150 kEuro.

National funding: i) EPSRC and BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Negative Emission Technologies for Net Zero (NET2ZERO) EP/Y035127/1. Funded Value: £8,456,761. PI2 part: £1,970k. This is a long-term cooperative grant with a total duration of 102 months (2025-2033) and it includes 6 PhD projects. These projects will focus on negative emission technologies. Most climate policy specialists in the UK and around the world consider these will be essential to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change. ii) EPSRC IAA 2022-2025 ‘A high precision laser-based Mobile sensor for the detection of Trace Amounts of Hydrogen’. £75 k (2023-2024). iii) ISPF - International Research Empowerment Programme by British Council. Project: Strengthening Collaboration for Sustainable Lithium Battery Recycling: Knowledge Exchange and Technology Optimization.   £78 k (2025-2026)

EU projects: ALERT, ERC Synergy Grant 2026, Be early, yet predictable - Fast detection of lung cancer using digital twins assisted biophotonics, I3 V. Hessel and PI3 E. Rebrov, 23 million Euro. While not topically related to SCOPE (plasma), the experience of a first ERC Synergy Grant facilitated the submission of a second ERC Synergy Grant. ALERT passed stage 1 ERC Synergy evaluation.

National projects: ARC Centre of Excellence (2022), CE230100015, Plants for Space (P4S), Mathew Gilliham et al. V. Hessel (I3) is Program Chair Processes. Granted with $35 million budget. Budget Hessel $2.1 million.