Solar panels have been installed at the modular laboratory of the University of Seville, where the Sodium Hydroxide Route or NaOH Route (a patent of CapturaCO₂, S.L.) is being developed within the framework of the FIC-Fighters project.
This step strengthens the project’s commitment to truly sustainable innovation.
FIC-Fighters works on transforming phosphogypsum into commercial products through sustainable, (near) zero-waste processes. Now, it is also demonstrated that this pilot plant (modular laboratory) can operate using renewable energy (in this case, solar power), further reducing its carbon footprint.
Compared to other phosphogypsum management alternatives (such as simple containment solutions or inaction regarding the stacks), FIC-Fighter’s approach proposes active, circular, and energy-decarbonised valorisation.
With the use of renewable energy, the project also demonstrates that the ecological transition is not merely a theoretical concept, but a technically viable reality at pilot scale, one that will also be validated at industrial scale within the project itself.
FIC-Fighters continues moving forward toward fairer, more inclusive, circular, and healthier cities.
