液化空气announces the 3 winners of the 2018 Scientific Challenge
Three winners were rewarded at the end of the 2018 Scientific Challenge organized by Air Liquide, out of more than 132 proposals from 34 different countries. In the context of this second edition, Air Liquide had invited teams of researchers, start-ups and private or public institutes to submit scientific research projects aimed at improving air quality and fighting climate change using the Essential Small Molecules such as oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, etc.
The three winners received the“Air Liquide Scientific Prize”endowed with 50 000 euros. In addition, the winners have signed a partnership agreement with the Group that will enable them to receive 1.5 million euros in funding, shared between the three projects, to开发他们的科学建议，并将其转化为市场上可接受的技术。betway旗舰版下载For each topic, the winners are:
“低二氧化碳H2”-如何在减少温室气体排放的同时生产具有成本竞争力的氢气？
José Manuel Serra Alfaro from the Instituto de Tecnología Química（一个由瓦伦西亚政治大学和高等调查委员会共同创建的联合研究中心）在西班牙。伙伴关系将侧重于development of a new process using a reactor membrane to produce purified H2 in a single step.
“H2来了”-在以化石燃料为基础的工业过程中，如何利用氢气来避免温室气体和空气污染物的排放？
来自瑞士苏黎世ETH的克里斯托夫·科佩雷特。The partnership will focus on the高效H2和CO2制甲醇催化剂的开发。
“可持续农场到叉子”- Can the dietary needs of 7.6 billion people be met in an affordable, healthy and sustainable manner?
Wenbiao Shen from the Nanjing Agricultural University in China.The partnership will focus on theuse of water enriched with H2 in agriculture to reduce the use of fertilizers and pesticides.
弗朗索瓦·达奇斯，Senior Vice-President and member of the Air Liquide Group Executive Committee, supervising Innovation, said:
“这一科学挑战加强了专家组与国际科学界（大学、理工学院、实验室……）的合作。它完美地说明了该集团的开放式创新方法。这一挑战使我们能够继续扩大与基本小分子有关的知识，以期发明新的解决方案，减少碳足迹，应对社会面临的关键挑战。”
这三位获奖者是由7名成员组成的评审团选出的，评审团由液化空气公司研发部副总裁领导，成员包括Jean-Pierre Sauvage教授，斯特拉斯堡大学名誉教授，2016年诺贝尔化学奖分子机器设计与合成奖得主，Professor Pamela Ronald,Plant pathologist and geneticist at the University of California, Davis, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and five Air Liquide Fellows, distinguished in the Group's internal recognition program.
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