National research programme Decarbonisation of the industry (PEPR SPLEEN)
The national research programme "Decarbonisation of the industry" (PEPR SPLEEN) is part of the national acceleration strategy France 2030 "Decarbonisation of the industry" and aims to prepare technological offerings and breakthrough solutions that will contribute to meeting France's climate commitments by 2050 and strengthening national sovereignty over decarbonisation technologies.
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Research and development (R&D) has a major role to play in supporting the decarbonisation of the French industry and the development of national industrial sectors for decarbonisation solutions. This is a fundamental challenge, as industry is responsible for around 20% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the national territory. The National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC) aims to reduce GHG emissions by 35% by 2030 and 81% by 2050 compared to 2015 for industry.
The PEPR SPLEEN program aims to implement a structuring research program, targeting the transformation of industrial processes to make them less GHG-emitting. It aims to encourage and support upstream research activities, in the TRL 1-4 range, responding to priorities defined in the framework of the national acceleration strategy "Decarbonisation of the industry" of France 2030.
The program aims to mobilize and federate the French scientific community for the design of industrial systems with lower GHG emissions around four complementary research axes:
- New prediction and monitoring tools:
- Through the acquisition of data and their processing in real-time, in order to retroact on processes, particularly based on indicators based on life cycle analysis, with the objective of decarbonisation
- Through the optimization of synergies between production sets and with territories (urban areas in particular)
- Low-carbon energy integration and energy efficiency:
- Through decarbonised fuels and solar thermal energy for industrial heat production
- Through the electrification of heat at the heart of industrial processes
- Through the valorization of fatal heat
- Through new cooling production systems
- Decarbonisation and process intensification:
- Through chemical reactions and catalytic conversion, reactors, cement and steel production, CO2 capture and separation
- CO2 storage and valorization:
- Through conversion into molecules of interest (chemistry) or fuels or materials (carbonates, polymers)
- Through geological sequestration onshore, aiming to anticipate its sociotechnical trajectory and long-term monitoring