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Synhelion’s Challenge
Synhelion has a unique technology to produce renewable synthetic fuels from solar energy and CO2. The renewable fuels can directly replace fossil fuels and are fully compatible with the world’s existing fuel infrastructure. Synhelion’s technology closes the CO2 cycle and contributes to a sustainable transportation sector.
Fuel production processes via thermochemical redox cycles are an active and complex field of research. Synhelion was working with redox materials to commercialize the production of solar fuels, mainly for application in aviation. They had already identified some materials, but wanted to explore alternatives with an equally good performance.
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“We wanted to open-up the field of well-known materials by screening through the whole database to investigate many kinds of materials that might be suitable and compare them to state-of-the-art redox materials. ”
Innovative Material Candidates with ExoMatter
Synhelion relied on ExoMatter for quantum-chemical simulation data for over 45,000 materials, leveraging the result of ~50 Mio. CPU-hours by scientists around the world. ExoMatter also conducted a thermodynamic simulation based on Synhelion’s process parameters.
ExoMatter provided analyses for multiple process parameter sets with over 1,000 materials. Laboratory time was reduced by 6-12 months and a wealth of new materials candidates identified.
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“It is very interesting and helpful to see what information can be extracted from the database and to have all this data in one place on the platform. Furthermore, I liked the frequent exchange with the ExoMatter team and their commitment to the success of our joint project.”
Fuel production processes via thermochemical redox cycles are an active and complex field of research in which ExoMatter is a competent partner.
