iCSI - industriell katalyse for konkurransedyktig og bærekraftig kjemisk prosessindustri

iCSI is a Centre for research based innovation (SFI) on Catalysis Science and Innovation related to industrial processes key to Norwegian land-based industry, global industrial competitiveness, and future chemical processing and energy conversion with minimum environmental footprint. These processes supply key sectors of the global market (catalysts, chemicals, fertilizer, plastics, fuels, etc.); the very products that impact our food supply and standard of living the most.

iCSI teams the industrial partners Yara, K.A. Rasmussen, Dynea, INOVYN and Haldor Topsøe, with the research partners University of Oslo, SINTEF and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The industrial partners all have leading technology in areas where the core business relies largely on catalysis, and represent significant industrial operations in Norway as well as internationally. The research partners comprise the main academic groups within industrial catalysis in Norway.

The iCSI basic vision is to establish competence and technology that promotes world class energy and raw material efficiency for the industrial partners. iCSI will also be a strong future knowledge base for the Norwegian chemical industry, and benefit society in terms of securing jobs, reducing the energy consumption and abating harmful emissions to the environment. State-of-the-art methodology in synthesis, characterization, and kinetic investigations will be applied to identify factors critical to the performance of complex catalysts operating under industrially relevant conditions. Based on such insight, predictive tools for materials, chemistry and process optimization can be developed.

The iCSI total budget is MNOK 192 (2015-2023) and NTNU is host institution. Significant researcher training in the form of ~12PhD and ~6postdoctoral fellowships is included. iCSI has an extensive international research interface and a profile of promoting excellence and leadership of women in research and innovation.