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ANR TEM-MOF
Gestion de la thermicité des matériaux MOF
January 2024 – December 2027
Projet coordinator : Thomas DEVIC DR CNRS (ST2E team)
Persons of IMN involved : Stéphane GROLLEAU (IE UNIV), Nicolas STEPHANT (IE UNIV)
Total financing :539 k€ with 182k€ for IMN
Metal-Organic Frameworks are emerging adsorbents presenting advantageous adsorption capacities, up to 60% higher than those of conventional activated carbons or zeolites. Consequently, for the two worldwide major issues of industry decarbonation and energy transition, those materials offer great perspectives such as CO2 capture and energetic gas (H2, CH4) storage. Nevertheless, those enhanced storage capacities are related to equally important inhibiting thermal effects (exothermic under adsorption, endothermic under desorption). At industrial scale, those thermal effects would induce major reduction in performances (capacity, selectivity and charge/discharge kinetics) even hazard issues (hot spots). Up to date, whereas the literature on MOF for gas storage or capture is plethoric, only few research efforts were devoted to the thermal management of MOF. The project is fully devoted to it, gathering a complementary consortium of partner experts on the various multidisciplinary aspects from MOF elaboration to the targeted applications. We will especially focus our work on the development of MOF/graphite conducting composites, which will for example be of interest for isothermal-diabatic applications such as CO2 capture in TSA processes. The 4 years research effort is shared between MOF and related composites elaborations and characterizations, comparison between raw MOF and composites, assessments of applications related performances, multi-scale modelisation (from composite material to industrial process) and lab-scale pilot tests. For all steps, from academic research to industrial concerns, environmental impacts are continuously considered.