Partnerships
Sotacarbo has solid and well-established partnerships with the world's leading research centers.
NETL - National Energy Technology Laboratory (United States of America) – An institution that is part of the national research laboratories system of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Sotacarbo partners with NETL on activities that span from modelling to the validation of simulation models, from the optimization of kinetic models on specific fuels to the pre-combustion separation of CO2 through membranes.
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Hamilton Maurer International (United States of America) – The partnership covers the development of technologies for the gasification of waste materials.
IITM - Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India) – Founded in 1959, IITM is a unique reality in India’s research landscape: 550 faculties, 100 world-class laboratories; a 250-hectare campus open to the public, housing 8000 students and 1250 employees.
Sotacarbo collaborates with IITM on the development of various “low carbon” technologies, in particular on biomass power generation.
K-COSEM (South Korea) – As part of the research on the Sotacarbo Fault Lab, a collaboration was formalized with the Korean consortium K-COSEM, which includes the major South Korean research centers and universities (above all Korea University and Seoul National University) working in the field of the geological confinement of CO2.
University of Engineering and Technology Lahore (Pakistan) – The collaboration with the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore is mostly aimed at exchanging experimental results.
Several joint papers detailing the results of the collaboration have recently been published on international scientific journals.
University of Melbourne (Australia) – The collaboration with the Peter Cook Centre on Carbon Capture and Storage of the University of Melbourne concerns the development of joint activities on CO2 separation and confinement site monitoring systems.
Heriot-Watt University (United Kingdom) – The partnership with Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh focuses on the experimental characterization of innovative fuels (microalgae) for renewable electricity production.
Centro Nacional del Hidrógeno (Spain) – A collaboration is ongoing with the CHN2, a Spanish public research organisation, to jointly develop technologies for hydrogen production from renewable sources.
VTT Technical Research Center of Finland (Finland) – The partnership concerns the development of gasification technologies and the production of renewable fuels.