The ENSURE team won the annual award for the best paper in 2024 with their paper on microseismic monitoring of the Quest CCS site in Canada.
Read MoreThe researchers in the ACT3 LOUISE project have interesting results from pilot tests of waste and biomass in a 150 kW CLC unit. The results areimportant for exploring the scalability of CLC.
The results were presented at the 7th International Conference on Chemical Looping in Alberta October 2024.
Details are available at the LOUISE project web site
The ABSALT project was finalized summer 2024 with many interesting results on development of solids adsorption looping technology for CO2 capture.
Read MoreThe CoCaCO2La project was finalized summer 2024 with many interesting results on how to convert captured CO2 into valuable products, primarily ethylene.
Read MoreThe next ACT Knowledge Sharing Workshop will be in Oslo, Norway, 11-12 September 2024. Please save the date. More details will be available May 2024.
Read MoreThe LOUISE project will host a webinar 20 November 2024 on decarbonisation through waste-derived fuels and CCS technology.
Read MoreThe SHARP team is hosting a CO2 storage risk workshop in Copenhagen 17-18 September 2024
Read MoreNew report on public perception of CCUS published by the ENSURE team.
Read MoreThe Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) has publish a new call for RD&D applications. This is a unique opportunity for applying for funding for CCUS projects. All details are available at the CETP web site. The due date for submitting applications is 21 November 2024.
USA is one of many countries that have joined the CETP and DoE presented the partnership and the new call for applications at the DOE/NETL Project Review Meeting/Conference in Pittsburgh on August 5-9, 2024.
See picture of Aaron Fuller and Andrew Hlasko from US DOE presenting CETP
US DOE requirements for US applicants are available from this presentation.
CETP also had an online event to promote the call in June. The recording is available here.
All facets of EverLoNG SBCC prototype unit will be rigorously tested over a 5-week period
The SSCV Sleipnir from Heerema Marine Contractors set sail in June 2024 with a very special cargo on board: the EverLoNG ship-based carbon capture (SBCC) prototype.
Installation of the unit, developed in the Netherlands by Carbotreat and VDL Carbon Capture, was completed following a recent consortium meeting where project partners gathered on board the vessel to discuss the finer details of the campaign.
The ANICA project has studied new concepts of the indirectly heated carbonate looping (IHCaL) process for CO2 capture from lime and cement plants. Test campaigns have been performed in a 300 kWth pilot test rig. Results from the experiments and comprehensive modelling work show that the IHCaL process has the potential to decarbonize lime and cement plants with low CO2 avoidance costs; 20–25 €/tCO2 for optimized configurations.
The ANICA project was coordinated by Technische Universität Darmstadt. The project consortium was composed by twelve partners from three different countries: Germany, United Kingdom (UK), and Greece.
The final report from ANICA is available (download) and you can find more details at the ANICA project website.
The EverLoNG project is developing a new concept for CO2 capture at ships. A prototype has now been installed at an LNG carrier and you can watch a video of this important milestone at the project website.
One of the biggest challenges for CCS is that the public often do not understand what the CCS technology is all about. The CCS community need to communicate to the public how CCS works. It is important to build public awareness about how CCS can become an important tool to reduce global CO2 emissions.
The ACT project ENSURE have addressed this and they arranged a large workshop together with another ACT project, the SHARP project, to define how public perception can be adressed and how we should communicate to make sure the public understand what CCS is all about.
The ACT4 project MeDORA will combine amine-based CO2 capture with a membrane to remove oxygen. This will reduce the amine degradation considerably. The project and the new and interesting technology is described in the last newsletter from IEAGHG (page 12-13).
This webinar is organised by the LOUISE project, which aims to reduce the cost of CO2 capture by demonstrating CLC as an innovative method for delivering power and heat from waste-derived fuels, and CO2 ready for storage or utilisation. Read more here
The LOUISE project aims to demonstrate how chemical looping combustion (CLC) technology can be implemented on waste-to-energy facilities as a means of avoiding their CO2 emissions.
The project team have performed a very interesting test campaign in a 150 kWth units. You can read more about what the project team learned about further upscaling at the LOUISE website.
CO2 capture is one of the viable options for the decarbonization of the shipping industry. The MemCCSea project have studied compact membrane systems for flexible operational and cost-effective post-combustion CO2 capture at ships.
The technology are very promising and with further development it could be a future full-scale solution for ships with low carbon footprints.
The final report can be downloaded from the MemCCSea project web site.
Two of the ACT projects, ENSURE and SHARP, invite to a workshop on public acceptance of CCS. The workshop takes place in Amsterdam 15 November 2023. More details available here.
The AC2OCEM project has shown how oxyfuel technology can be implemented in the cement industry as a cost-efficient carbon capture solution. The project team have advanced key components of oxyfuel cement plants to TRL6 by performing a series of pilot-scale experiments as well as several detailed analytical studies. An innovative second generation oxyfuel technology for new-build cement plants is also studied, facilitating a leap from TRL2 to TRL6 in key technological components.
The final report from the AC2OCEM project is available and can be downloaded.
The ACT consortium is very happy with the successful ACT Knowledge Sharing Workshop in Paris 4th and 5th October 2023. The focus of the Workshop was to share knowledge, experiences and results gained in the ongoing ACT projects. The workshop was also an excellent opportunity for generating new ideas and building new networks.
A big thank to all the ACT projects who contributed to making the workshop a big success and a big thank to ADEME and ANR for great hospitality and for taking care of all practicalities.
The presentations from the workshop can be downloaded as soon as we have confirmation from the presenter to publish their slides. The list below will continuously be updated as soon as we hear from the presenters. The program is available here.
Welcome to the ACT Knowledge Sharing Workshop 2023, Gerdi Breembroek, RVO / ACT. Download.
Presentation of French Ministry of Education, Xavier Montagne
Presentation of ANR, Pascal Bain. Download.
Presentation of ADEME, Anne Varet. Download.
Future possibilities within the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP), Gerdi Breembroek, RVO / ACT. Download.
Carbon sinks: What role can research play or have in accelerating their development in France? Guillaume Boissonnet, CEA. Download.
Key note presentation - The role of CCUS in the green transition, Joop Hazenberg, ZEP (Zero Emission Platform). Download.
French ministry subject of CCS&CCU in France, Carol Paquier. Download.
Chemical looping technologies (the LOUISE project), Jochen Ströhle, Technische Universität Darmstadt. Download.
Solid adsorbent looping technology (the ABSALT project), Colin Snape, University of Nottingham. Download.
Sustainable operation of CO2 capture plants (the SCOPE project), Hanne Kvamsdal, SINTEF. Download.
CO2 Capture on ships (the EverLoNG project), Marco Linders, TNO. Download.
Convert CO2 to biofuels and chemicals (the CooCE project), Rocio A. Diaz-Chavez, Imperial College London. Download.
Conversion of CO2 from cement plant (the CREATE project), Tim Stauft, Carbonova. Download
Convert CO2 to Ethylene (the CoCaCO2La project), Feifei Zhang, TWI. Download.
Convert CO2 to methanol (the NEXTCCUS project), Mahmoud Zendehdel, IRITALY Trading Company. Download.
De-risiking CO2 storage (the SHARP project), Elin Skurtveit, NGI. Download.
Micro seismic monitoring of storage sites (the ENSURE project), Volker Oye, NORSAR. Download.
New cement for CO2 storage (the CEMENTEGRITY project), Reinier van Noort, IFE. Download.
Re-using depleted fields for CO2 storage (The RETURN project), Jelena Todorovic, SINTEF. Download.
Connecting CO2 sources and sinks (the ACTION project), Anna Korre, Imperial College. Download.
New concept for CO2 Capture (the MeDORA project), Roberta Veronezi Figueiredo, TNO. Download.
Carbon sequestration in cement (the 3D Printing project), Souradeep Gupta, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Download.
Carbon conversion to cementitious materials for buildings (the MACE project), Ana Aday, NREL. Download.
Storing CO2 in basalts (the PERBAS project), Jörg Bialas, GEOMAR. Download.
Monitoring CO2 storage sites (the SPARSE project), Peder Eliasson, SINTEF. Download.
CO2 injection program for depleted gas reservoirs (the AMIGO project), Rick Chalaturnyk, University of Alberta. Download.
We have included some photos below that captures the atmosphere from the workshop. Please acknowledge our photographer Li Hua is you download and use the photos.
Mahmoud Zendehdel presenting the NEXTCCUS project
Hanne Kvamsdal presenting the SCOPE project
Gerdi Breembroek has everybody’s attention
Marco Linders explaining the EverLoNG project at the poster session
Everything was very good organized by Oksana Toma and Thamires Moreira
Lively discussions at the poster session
Roberta Figueiredo presenting the MeDORA project
Happy representatives from the ACT consortium
ACT Coordinator: Aage Stangeland, The Research Council of Norway
P.O Box 564 N-1327 Lysaker, Norway
Visiting address: Drammensveien 288, 0283 Oslo
E-mail: ast@rcn.no
