CSIC

Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) or Spanish National Research Council (in English) is the largest public research institution in Spain, with more than 120 multidisciplinary Institutes, distributed throughout Spain, and more than 3000 scientific staff. The CSIC’s research activity falls into three core areas, Society, Life and Matter, which cover the vast majority of academic disciplines. Its mission is to promote, coordinate, develop and disseminate scientific and technological research, in order to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and to economic, social and cultural development, as well as to train personnel and advise public and private entities in these matters.

Instituto de Carboquímica (ICB-CSIC) is an Institute that belongs to CSIC and develops its scientific activity in the area of Chemical Science and Technology. The “Combustion and Gasification” research group at ICB-CSIC is composed by about 20 scientific researchers including staff, students and technicians. The group’s research is oriented towards the development of advanced non-polluting processes for the generation of heat/power or syngas using renewable fuels (biomass, organic waste, etc.) or waste (plastics, etc.) as raw materials. The processes investigated are combustion and gasification in bubbling and circulating fluidized beds. Since 2000 the group has worked in the development of new CO₂ capture technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (CLC, CLOU) and achieve negative CO₂ emissions, the production of H₂ without CO₂ emissions (CLR), or the production of high purity syngas (CLG) to obtain liquid biofuels.