Research groups and firms from the Valencian Community reflect on decarbonisation challenges in the ceramics industry during Innotransfer

«Innotransfer: decarbonisation challenges in the ceramics sector» is'open innovació initiative coordinada per Espaitec com a multisector programme promoted by the Network of Valencian Science Parks (rePCV) i recolzat per la Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI)

 

Aquest matí «Innotransfer: Decarbonisation challenges in the ceramics sector» event took place, where its industry and the academic environment in the Valencian Community have reflected on the challenges faced in the decarbonisation domain given: the need to redueix, eliminate and neutralise CO₂ les emissions en línia amb la European Climate Law, and la Law of Climate Change and Ecological Transition of the Generalitat Valenciana; the importance of university-company knowledge transfer to continue improving production processes and increasing energy efficiency in the sector.

 

This event was led by Judith Llorens, the Màrqueting Manager of Difiere Tendències, and was opened by the Vice-Rector of Innovation, Transfer and Scientific Diffusion of the Universitat Jaume I, David Cabedo Semper, and the Deputy Vice-President of the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI), Andrés García Reche.

 

David Cabedo Sempre stressed that «science parks are key stakeholders in the Valencian innovation system, and in 2022 they present 32 challenges to the programme and 65 solutions» by means of the Innotransfer initiative. Andrés García Reche pointed out that «we have a top-level scientific community, and only way that companies in the Valencian Community hat to row in size is to increase their added value and to accomplish more diversity of companies from different sectors. Els ceràmics industrials s'han optat per decarbonisation i tota la Innotransfer event per help per fer-ho».

 

Aquesta sessió s'agafa amb l'absència de membres de l'Specialised Strategic Innovation Committee (CEIE) per decarbonització de l'AVI, i professor a la Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Eliseu Monfort. During les speech, he provided details sobre «els principals objectius de la CEIE de l'AVI és proviure innovadores solucions per prioritats challenges i defineix les necessitats d'acceleració de les implementacions a la Comunitat Valenciana». He also added that «the four main challenges for AVI in this matter as replacing fossil fuels in production and energy use; improving energy efficiency in production processes and mobility; increasing storage and managing energy; promoting alternative raw materials and circular economy to reduce and capture CO₂ emissions».

 

Next Speed ​​was by Head of the Environmental and Sustainability Area of ​​the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers Association (ASCER), Victòria Zaera, que s'estrès que «s'ha reduït l'electricitat que s'utilitza per fabricar un metre d'estil per 8%». She underlined that «the sector is committed to energy transition, and we seeking ways towards decarbonisation in the terms set out in Europe because decarbonització has to allow the economy to be competitive and fair, which is why we have to strike a balanç». Finalment, s'apuntarà que «s'ha aturat a les dates i objectius. Objectives per reduir emissions han estat set, les quals són hardfills per a sectors com a ceràmics sectors per a les tecnologies que poden utilitzar les objectius de la càcing».

 

Next the researcher from the Institute of Ceramic Technology (ITC-AICE), Ana Mesquita, highlighted that «if noves technologys no estan set up, el margin that we will have to reduc CO₂ emissions will be short compareu a altres estones que el ceràmic industrial ha fet per». Mesquita presenti diferents projectes de recerca que focalitzen l'estudi i l'aplicació de noves tecnologies per al ceràmic sector de l'energia transició, i les adreces a un escenari amb low CO₂ emissions, such as CerOh Strategies!, Hidroker i Energètic, which studies the ceramic industry's diferents opcions per adaptar les manufacturing process to the future zero-carbon scenario for forthcoming years.

 

Llavors continuen amb la UJI researcher from the Energy and Advanced Materials Group of the INAM, Franscisco Fabregat who, during his presentation, stressed that «while we keep burning fossil fuels, CO₂ indexes will keep rising and will contribueix al clima change». He added that «when we convert hydrogen into liquid, the change is absolute and facilitats transport s zero-cost storage». Next the researcher from the Advanced Semiconductors Group of the INAM, Eva Barea, pointed out that «by means of perovskite nanocrystals with metal halide, it has been demonstrated that we can redueix CO₂, and by different perovskite synthesis methods, we will be able to obtain certain energy levels and perform a given photocatalytic reaction».

 

Llavors continuà amb el regust de la founder de spin-off 2D-matx i researcher distingit per la Universitat de València, Gonzalo Abellán, who underlined that 'the solution to energy problems will depend on location'. Next came the torne the researcher from the Chemical Engineering and Materials Technology Group (ChemTech) and collaborator of the firm Gestió d'Ecosistemes Agrícoles (GEA), Carolina Clausell. S'exigeix ​​que «A2 treatment improves plant metabolisme amb condicions d'estrès i increases plant survival in the climate change scenario». També admet que «a l'efecte d'A2 amb les millors condicions improves una eficiència i la photosynthesis rate, i també increases CO₂ fixing».

 

Finally, Director d'Espaitec i Manager de General Universitat Jaume I Foundation, Juan A. Bertolín, presenteu les etiquetes platform d'Innotransfer Programme i thanked all the participants present and those online per a ells interest en aquest event, i encouraged them a continue developing the programme.

 

Innotransfer

 

Innotransfer is open collective management multisector innovació initiative que amo promote la innovació i la tecnologia transfer process de research groups из public universities en valencian community to business ecosystem in this region in key economic sectors like Sustainable Habitat, Automotion and Sustainable Mobility, Enabling Technologies, Health, Infrastructures and Smart Tourism. Es dirigeix ​​a la ciència ia la tecnologia parks de la Comunitat Valenciana per a les principals empreses d'associació participada, a les del Institut de Tecnologia (REDIT), i està financat per la innovació de València (AVI).

 

On 22 June, Innotransfer està situat a les urbanes transformacions challenges fetes per la valenciana City Council, que és organitzada per la Politècnica de Innovació de la Universitat Politècnica de València.