General Description of the Institution

Sotacarbo – Società Tecnologie Avanzate Low Carbon S.p.A. is a R&D institute owned by the Regional Government of Sardinia and ENEA, the Italian National Agency on New Technology, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development.

Sotacarbo operates in the field of low carbon energy conversion technologies, with particular reference to biomass and waste gasification, green hydrogen production, carbon capture, utilization and storage and energy efficiency.

Sotacarbo formally represents Italy in the SET Plan Implementation Working Group on CCUS (action 9) and in the IEA-International Centre for Sustainable Carbon, is sponsor of the IEA-Greenhouse Gas Program, is founding member of the CO₂ Value Europe association and part of ECCSEL-ERIC (the European Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Laboratory Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium).

The Sotacarbo Research Centre is equipped with a of lab-, pilot- and demonstration-scale experimental facilities for the development of advanced low carbon technologies and advanced materials such as catalysts, solvents, sorbents, etc. Most of the research activities are carried out within specific collaboration agreements with international partners like U.S. Department of Energy – National Energy Technology Laboratory (USA), Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India), University of Melbourne – Peter Cook Centre on Carbon Capture and Storage (Australia), London South Bank University (United Kingdom) and many more.

Field of expertise

• Low carbon energy conversion
• Gasification technology
• Green hydrogen production
• Advanced catalysts
• CO₂ conversion into e-fuels
• Monitoring of CO₂ geological storage sites
• Energy efficiency