Invitation to CCUS Mission Innovation Workshop in Trondheim, June 19-20, 2019
/Mission Innovation Carbon Capture Challenge organises a workshop held back-to-back with the TCCS-10 Conference in Trondheim (June 17-19, 2019) to ensure continued progress in the direction of full-scale implementation and commercialization of CCUS technologies. Invitation and sign up details can be found here
CSLF Task Force Report on Improved Pore Space Utilisation
/The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) Technical Group’s Task Force was formed to investigate Improved Pore Space Utilisation. The mandate of the task force was to investigate the current status of techniques that have the potential to improve how well the capacity of reservoirs for CO2 storage are utilized. The Final Report from the task force on Improved Pore Space Utilisation has now been completed and can be found here
Video highlights of the Conference GHGT-14 held in Melbourne, Australia from October 22-25, 2018
/The 4-day conference included 71 technical sessions, 7 panel discussions, over 350 oral presentations, and over 400 posters, and presented many opportunities for the CCUS community to discuss, connect and collaborate.Delegates also had the opportunity to visit the CO2CRC’s Otway National Research Center in Australia, where researcher sare conducting CO2 injection tests and associated monitoring and analysis studies.
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3D printed materials reduce the cost of CO2 capture systems
/The 3D-CAPS project develops new 3D-printed materials that will strongly reduce the size of equipment for removal and recovery of CO2 from industrial gases using two promising new adsorption-based technologies with an inherent small energy footprint. Read more here
News from the 2nd stage of the 2nd ACT Call 2018
/Twenty six proposals were received for the second stage of the ACT second call, which closed on 1 March 2019. Read more
UK CCUS Initiative Webinar, 14 March 2019– 9:00 a.m. EDT (UTC-4)
/In support of a new initiative launched at the Ninth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM9), the Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Initiative, you are invited to join the United Kingdom (UK) for the webinar “Progressing CCUS in the UK and Accelerating CCUS Globally: The UK CCUS Action Plan and Outcomes from the Global CCUS Summit”. Read more here
Report on Webinar 3, 13 February 2019, ALIGN-CCUS- Preparing for large-scale transport for offshore CO2 storage
/The ALIGN-CCUS (ALIGN) project, funded by ERANET ACT, is a joint industry-led research initiative to accelerate the demonstration and implementation of the next-phase of European CCUS projects by addressing specific R&D gaps across the CCUS chain. This was the third webinar on the project. Read more
Trondheim CCS Conference, 17-19 June 2019
/The bi-annual Trondheim CCS Conference series – TCCS – is one of the leading scientific CCS technology Conferences. Its objective is to bring forward, present and discuss current work undertaken within R&D institutions, universities and in industry.
Since the start in 2003, the Conference grown from a meeting for a select few, to be an important meeting place for 350-400 CCS experts from all over the world. As 2019 marks the 10-year anniversary of TCCS, there will be a special programme on technological issues and social events. The Conference is hosted jointly by SINTEF and NTNU, and is organized by the Norwegian CCS Research Centre (NCCS).
For more information read here
Mid-year Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), April 25–26, Champaign, Illinois, United States
/The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) is a Ministerial-level international climate change initiative that is focused on the development of improved cost-effective technologies for carbon capture and storage (CCS). It also promotes awareness and champions legal, regulatory, financial, and institutional environments conducive to such technologies. For more information on the CSLF and the Mid-year Meeting read here
Workshop Announcement: Underground laboratories for CO2 geological storage research, 5-6 June 2019, Nancy, France
/ECCSEL4, the European Research Infrastructure on CO2 Capture and Storage, is organising this workshop to encourage researchers to use the LS-Andra Underground Research Lab.
This workshop is organised by the French node of ECCSEL in collaboration with the Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the French Club CO25, and the University of Lorraine. For more information read here
ACT ACORN stakeholder event in Westminster, London, UK, 23 January 2019
/The event took place in the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in Westminster, London on 23 January 2019 funded by the European Commission’s ERA-NET ACT programme. For more information click here
Gathering all ERA NET Coordinators from the 'Secure, clean and efficient energy' Societal Challenge of Horizon 2020
/The meeting took place in Brussels on January 30th 2019, where the Coordinators provided information to the EC project officers and SET Plan group on how the respective ERANET has contributed to the SET Plan implementation plan. The ACT’s Coordinator presentation can be viewed here.
Report from the 3rd ACT Sharing Knowledge Workshop (KSW) 2018
/After the 1st and the 2nd Knowledge Sharing Workshops which took place 14 November 2016 in Lausanne (Switzerland) and 24 October 2017 in Bucharest (Romania), respectively, the ACT consortium organized the 3rd Workshop 13 November 2018 in Niederaußem, Germany at the facilities of RWE.
To download the report click here
To read the brief outcome of the workshop and view the presentations follow the link
ACT Acorn: International collaboration shows how UK’s assets can accelerate Europe’s transition to sustainable future
/The groundbreaking Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project has today released findings from its international joint research project, which show how the UK can support decarbonisation of some of Europe’s carbon-intensive regions from the early 2020s through the phased roll-out of a low-cost, low-risk North Sea CO2 transport and storage infrastructure. Read more
ACT Acorn: Invitation to attend presentation of outputs on January 23rd in Westminster, London
/A presentation of the outputs of the ACT Acorn project will be held on January 23rd in Westminster, London. This project explores the feasibility of developing a carbon capture and storage cluster including hydrogen infrastructure and CO2 storage for the decarbonisation of industry, heat and transport, building out from existing carbon capture infrastructure in Scotland.
To view invitation click here
To register use the following link: https://act-acorn-catalyst.eventbrite.co.uk
Upcoming Conferences on CCUS technologies in 2019
/Three CCUS conferences are scheduled to be held in 2019.
The Gordon Research Conference series on CCUS technologies will be held from 5-10 May 2019 in Les Diablarets (Switzerland). CCUS technologies are needed under all climate scenarios projecting towards the end of this century both to mitigate and to counteract climate change. The 5-day conference with a unique and highly intensive format, addresses the question whether scientists and engineers are ready to deliver CCUS for large-scale deployment; revisits challenges and hurdles towards implementation; and identifies technical solutions and scientific breakthroughs needed.
Sessions with an impressive line-up of science and thought leaders address: The Role of CCUS in a 1.5°C World; Enabling Negative Emissions: DACCS and BECCS; Overcoming the Challenges of CO2 Storage; The Personal and Societal Challenges of CO2 Emissions Mitigation; Second Generation CO2 Capture Technologies; The Economic Aspects of CCUS; The Role of CCU; Policy Processes Around CCUS; and Coping with CO2 in the Heat and Power Sector and in Industry.
The Tekna CO2 Conference (information is available only in Norwegian language) will be held from 16-17 January 2019 in Oslo (Norway). The conference focuses on presenting the latest in technology and ongoing research and industrial projects.
The Climit Summit Conference will be held from 26-27 February 2019 in Oslo (Norway). CLIMIT is the national programme for research, development, piloting and demonstration of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) technologies for power generation and other industrial sources.
A follow up of the ACT sharing knowledge at GHGT-14
/Every two years, the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Program (IEAGHG) brings together the world’s experts on carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies. The most recent event was held in Melbourne, Australia from October 22-25, 2018 and included over 1000 delegates.
For more information click here
A brief outcome of the 3rd ACT Knowledge sharing workshop (KSW) 2018
/The 3rd ACT Knowledge sharing workshop (KSW) took place on the 13 November 2018 kindly hosted at the facilities of RWE Kraftwerk in Niederaußem, Germany. The objective of the KSW is to have updates from the projects funded by ACT and share results between these projects and relevant stakeholders from academia, industry and decision makers.
Heiko Gerhauser from PtJ opened the workshop and welcomed all before handing over to the ACT coordinator, Ragnhild Ronneberg from the Research Council of Norway (RCN), who briefly explained the objectives of the ACT initiative and the objectives and outcomes accomplished during these last two years. Thereafter we had an interesting introduction by Peter Moser to RWE, their importance in the energy sector and their CCU-projects at the plant - one of which is the ALIGN project.
Our host in Germany, PtJ Jülich had also organised for a presentation on the strategies for the Energy sector in Germany (Energiewende) and the 7th Energy Research Program, by Johannes Kerner from the Ministry of Economics and Energy. He pointed out that energy efficiency is a priority and the importance of renewables and sector coupling. Development of low CO2 emission industrial processes (in e.g. cement and steel factories) is important, as is also the utilisation of CO2 and conversion of it to other products.
At this workshop we had the honour of having Vassilios Kougionas, the project officer of ACT from the European Commission, present. He dedicated a great word to all participants underlining the tremendous and great work having been done by ACT for taking up both the SET-plan issues as well as the Mission innovation topics in the CCUS field.
All 8 projects from the first ACT call were presented, and they shared the value and the advantages of the transnational collaboration in R&D and innovation actions in the CCUS-area.
Furthermore, a recent new partner in ACT, US-Department of Energy represented by John Litynski, gave us good remarks and information regarding CCUS in the United States, approaching the concept of strategy in this sector for the future and presenting their projects as a part of the solution for the global concerns in terms of energy. Important issues in the strategy for CCUS on fossil fuel in US is based on the energy production, grid reliability and resilience, energy security and job creation.
During the day, we had the opportunity to visit the power plant at RWE and got information about their CCU-project at their facility (see picture).
The ACT consortium acknowledge the work being undertaken by the ACT funded projects and also wants to thank the organising group at PtJ and RWE for a very interesting and inspiring workshop.
For more information click to view each presentation below:
ACT – Objectives and status, Ragnhild Rønneberg
RWE Power – Coal innovation centre, Peter Moser
Energiwende and the 7th Energy Research program, Johannes Kerner
ALIGN, Peter van Os
ELEGANCY, Svend Munkejord
PRE-ACT, Peder Eliasson
CCUS in US, John Litynski
ECO-BASE, Anders Nermoen
ACORN, Hazel Robertson and Philippa Parmiter
DETECT, Marcella Dean
3D-Caps, Robert de Boer
GASTECH, Shahriar Amini
News from the 1st stage of the 2nd call
/Forty-seven pre-proposals were received for the ACT second call, which closed on 12 September 2018. The pre-proposals requested a total amount of €121 million, which represented a considerable oversubscription.
After national eligibility checks and evaluation by the ACT consortium, 27 pre-proposals representing a funding request of €68 million were invited to submit full proposals by 1 March 2019.
This successful first-stage of the second call shows a contribution by all ACT partner countries, all targeted CCUS topics are addressed, and remains highly competitive.
