The Mojito project results will be produced by 6 Work Packages. These work packages also include comprehensive activities relating to communication, dissemination, and exploitation to ensure the technology can be taken forward towards pilot demonstration and commercial exploitation. The project work packages are shown in the figure and described below.
Work Package 1: Management, Coordination and Risk Management (lead by UNIBO)
WP1 General Objective: To ensure efficient management of the project by the establishment and operation of an effective consortium management structure.
WP1 Specific Objectives:
Provide organisation and management of consortium activities including the consortium agreement, partner interactions, timescales, budgets and communication with the Commission, any overall legal, IP, contractual and ethical management issues.
Coordination of the scientific, technological and administrative efforts of the various partners.
Organise of all management workshops and meetings, including the general assembly meetings, mid-term and final review.
Monitor issues related to ethics, gender equality and early-career researchers.
Handling of risk assessment and management
Work Package 2: Analysis of input materials, products and gathering of relevant process data (lead by UNIBO)
WP2 General Objective: To systematically collect, process, and evaluate data related to input materials, products, and relevant process data. To enable informed and data-based discussions and decisions regarding observations and research results.
WP2 Specific Objectives:
To provide a systematic knowledge base for research in the project through chemical/physical analysis of all input materials and pre-treated mixtures of carbonaceous and carbonate compounds.
To ensure a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of mixtures of carbonaceous and carbonate compounds undergoing E/MW-heating.
To prepare materials for calcination tests.
To provide measurements and data processing for outputs from Task 3.2 and 3.3.
To store and efficiently process all data from experimental runs, such as energy intensity, carbon intensity, and calcination rate and to directly link process data with an integrated interface to laboratory analysis results as a basis for the profound evaluation of the technical performance.
Handling of risk assessment and management.
Work Package 3: Pilot plant purchase, commissioning and operation (lead by Fraunhofer)
WP3 General Objective: To select fit-to-purpose configuration, purchase and operate a hybrid dual-mode calcination system with up to 5 kg/h capacity, consisting of a rotary kiln for continuous operation equipped with an electric (E) and a 915 MHz microwave heating system which can work separately or jointly in an airtight environment with CO2 collection in a separate vessel.
WP3 Specific Objectives:
To select and purchase a hybrid Electrical/Microwave rotary kiln configuration.
To manage commissioning and preparation of the rotary kiln.
To prepare the DoE and to run test and measures.
Work Package 4: Computational science (lead by UNIBO)
WP4 General Objective: To describe the calcination reaction from first principles and perform large scale atomistic simulations of the whole calcination process in the conditions present within the rotary kiln. The simulations, based on first principles and Molecular Dynamics based on Machine Learning Force Fields (MLFF-MD) approaches, will unravel the atomistic mechanisms of the CaCO3 calcination and the role of PCMs and environmental molecules.
WP4 Specific Objectives:
Evaluation of the calcination reaction paths and energy barriers for the most relevant CaCO3 polymorphs (i.e., calcite, aragonite, and vaterite) through DFT calculations.
Accurate atomistic simulation of the calcination process in different operando conditions by means of large-scale MLFF-MD.
Identification of the predominant mechanism of PCMs MW absorption and of the impact of system size, shape, and functionalization.
Work Package 5: Exploitation, Communication and Dissemination (lead by UNIBO)
WP5 General Objective: To deliver the dissemination, exploitation, and communication strategy in order to raise the profile of the NET Fuels process and secure commercial and political buy-in.
WP5 Specific Objectives:
To develop and continuously update the exploitation, dissemination and communication plan.
To deliver the exploitation strategy.
To communicate the project results.
To deliver the dissemination strategy.
Work Package 6: Portfolio Management (lead by UNIBO)
WP6 General Objective: To explore synergies and collaborations among the projects of the portfolio, to maximize the achievement of the scientific results, the exploitation potentials, the outreach opportunities with key stakeholders, the identification and overcoming of major barriers to introduce the innovation to the market.
WP6 Specific Objectives:
Contribute to the elaboration of the strategic plan of portfolio and sub-portfolio activities, which is composed by a list of the specific techno-scientific joint collaborations between two or more portfolio projects, with the respective timeline and expected achievements. Potential synergies identified by a comprehensive in-depth analysis of shared components and complementarities amongst the portfolio members is expected to unlock additional value for each portfolio member.
Developing a common understanding within the portfolio members of the existing and developing regulatory environment in view of the future implementation of the technologies that are developed by the portfolio members. By identifying regulatory barriers for innovation, the portfolio of projects can jointly contribute to potential improvements and further development of the regulatory framework. Through common communication activities addressed at policy makers and other relevant stakeholders such as dissemination at scientific conferences or trade-fairs, social acceptance for proposed solutions can be increased, and regulatory barriers for innovation can be highlighted.
Sharing life cycle analysis and life cycle thinking and developing novel/common metrics or ways of benchmarking the potential impact associated with each solution is expected to contribute to the acceptance and future implementation of the technologies developed by the portfolio members.
Define common scenarios and strategies for commercialization and exploitation. Identify key stakeholders such as relevant end-users, investors, supply-chain actors. Effectively communicate key outcomes of the research work of the portfolio members collectively and/or as individual project to early stage private and corporate investors focused on the same field to attract early feedback. Exchanging such techno-economic insights and commercialization scenarios with other portfolio members is expected to have more impact than individual projects can achieve and may also trigger new partnership(s). Also, collective understanding of IP strategies and IP management is expected to add portfolio value to each project.
Work Package 1: Management, Coordination and Risk Management (lead by UNIBO)
