Year 2023 (November-December)

• The fellow arrives in Zaragoza (Spain) on the 1st of November. 😄

• The fellow's contract is ready on the 10th of November.

• Today (16th of November in 2023) the project is officially started. 🎉

• We used some microalgae (below-left video) in a granulator setup (below-middle video) to granulate the algae on the 11th of December, and we got some granulates (below-right picture). 

• The granulation process has now been optimised, and 88% of the granulates from the optimal procedure is between 0.2 to 1 mm, which is suitable for tests in a batch reactor and an 1.5 kW pilot (18th of December).

• Char from the alga was made from a fast pyrolysis process in a fludized bed reactor, and will be used for charaterizations. Below is a picture of the batch fluidized bed reactor system and a video for the fast pyrolysis (11th of January 2024)

• Some nice chars (the video below) were obtained through the fast pyrolysis but it seems they are homogenous and we are making other attempts. (11th of January 2024)

• First video about the project is open to public through this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNIj_Z1zZSg&t=9s (23rd of January 2024)

• We started first microalga-CLG tests in a batch fluidized bed reactor (the same one used for char preparation) on Jan-30, but experienced various agglomerations, very hard and hard, and also the time was hard ... Here are some examples in between 30th of January and 8th of February 2024.

• We got rid of agglomeration during another attempt on the Feb 23 and the same day we received plenty of oxygen carriers from Chalmers (thanks to Calle and Tobias)! 😃😁😉👏 (23rd of February 2024)

• Submitted an Abstract to the 12th International Freiberg Conference on Circular Carbon Technologies that will take place from 23–27 September 2024 in Shanghai, China. (23rd of March 2024)