FRESH is a 3-year project (2022-2025) developing seasonal storage of renewable energy through the transformation of CO2 into potassium formate and its transformation on-demand into electrical power. The project will achieve this through the development, construction and validation at TRL 4, of an integrated, cost competitive process for conversion of CO2 to potassium formate using an electrocatalytic process powered by renewable electricity. The highly stable potassium formate generated by the reactor will be stored safely for long periods (from short term or seasonal) in tanks. The subsequent conversion of the stored potassium formate to electricity on demand will use a direct fuel cell system. The project includes development of the individual components (CO2 to formate and formate to electricity), CO2 sourcing and purification and ultimately the construction and validation of an integrated protoype at TRL 4.

Poroject Lead: Consiglio nazionale delle Ricerche (Roma, Italy)

Region: Europe

Country: Italy

City/Town: Roma

Timeline Start - End: 2022-07-01 - 2025-06-30

Project Status: Ongoing

Project Budget: 2689252.0 €

Funding source: Horizon Europe

Website: http://www.iccom.cnr.it/horizon-eu-fresh/

CCU Tecnology Category: Capture (Point sources) and Utilization

Facility stage: Under Construction

End TRL: 4

CO2 capture/Utilization:

Production Volume:

Product Categories:

- Chemicals

- Consumer goods

Specific Product(s): Potassium formate, electricity.