It continues with the ‘From CO2 to energy’ ECRA Chair, together with the European Cement Research Academy.
The European Cement Research Academy (ECRA) was warmly acknowledged in Mons, Belgium, for the nine years of funding of the ECRA Chair ‘From CO2 to Energy’, offered by ECRA and Belgian University of Mons (UMONS) and dedicated to research and innovation in CO2 capture and conversion processes applied to the cement sector.
Since the spring of 2013, when it was launched, this Chair is coordinated by Prof. Diane Thomas and Dr Lionel Dubois, from the Chemical & Biochemical Process Engineering Unit, and Prof. Guy De Weireld, from the Thermodynamics Unit, both located in the Faculty of Engineering of UMONS.
The ECRA Chair allowed to set up a real centre of expertise around the CCU thematic (Carbon Capture & Utilisation), with results, tools and methodologies applicable to other industrial sectors.
This fruitful collaboration will not stop there as Diane Thomas, Academic and Scientific Coordinator of the ECRA Chair and Vice-Rector for the Promotion of Regional and Interregional Partnerships at UMONS, explains:
«Together with Dr. Martin Schneider (Managing Director of ECRA) and Prof. Philippe Dubois (Rector of UMONS), we signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will allow us, for another three-year period, to continue the exchange of ideas and results, but also to investigate other possibilities of collaboration. The challenges for reducing CO2 emissions are indeed enormous!»
Caption: (from left to right), Prof. Diane Thomas, Academic and Scientific Coordinator of the ECRA Chair and Vice-Rector for the Promotion of Regional and Interregional Partnerships at UMONS; Prof. Philippe Dubois, Rector at UMONS, and Dr. Martin Schneider (Managing Director of ECRA) signing a new Memorandum of Understanding
