Research Centre for
Carbon-Strategic Catalysis
碳戰略催化研究中心
Introduction of RC-CSC
Introduction of RC-CSC
The establishment of the Research Centre for Carbon-Strategic Catalysis (RC-CSC) aims to supply a platform that can strengthen the research collaborations and efforts in PolyU to achieve more impactful outputs on the advanced catalyst design and synthesis for the sustainable energy development strategies. The Hong Kong government has announced that Hong Kong would strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050.
Currently, electricity generation was the largest source of carbon emissions, accounting for about 66% of the total emissions in Hong Kong, followed by transport (about 18%) and waste (about 7%, mainly from landfills). Therefore, it is an extremely challenging target to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050, which requires all the joint efforts and participation from all the universities of Hong Kong to formulate the proactive, forward-looking and targeted strategy and platforms.
Carbon Strategy
Carbon Strategy
The carbon strategy actually involves sustainable energy, CO2 capture and utilization and pollution waste conversion, etc. For all these perspectives, the catalysts have been one of the most important factors, which is the main research focuses of RCCSC.
For example, CO2 reduction (CO2RR) is a significant research direction to effectively convert CO2 into useful chemicals and liquid fuels for industrial applications.
The developments of advanced sustainable energy systems such as fuel cells also strongly depend on efficient and stable catalysts to convert chemical energy into electricity.
Moreover, due to the large daily waste in Hong Kong, biodiesel generation will be a promising solution to reduce the waste and change them into highly useful liquid fuel, which also requires the design of cheap and efficient catalysts.