DETECT Project Report -first results and insights
/The project has made excellent progress in 2019 and is well on track to achieve all goals outlined in the proposal. Please read more here
Welcome to the 4th ACT Knowledge Sharing Workshop 2019, 6 November 2019, Athens, Greece
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ACT is organizing the 4th Knowledge Sharing workshop in Athens 6 November 2019. The ACT projects are generating results that could pave way for CCS deployment worldwide and the workshop will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about ACT and CCS.
More details, including the draft program are available in the attached brochure.
The value of ACT Mid-term review
/The midterm review meeting for the ACT1 projects was held in the Netherlands on 11 and 12 June 2019. The meeting was a face to face evaluation moment for the large ACT granted projects (>3 M€ funding), Pre-ACT, Align-CCUS and Elegancy, after 18 months implementation. Read more here
2019 Balkan Clean Energy Transition Event (BCET), 19-22 September 2019, Kozani, Greece
/Balkan Clean Energy Transition Conference and Fair is a four-day international event (19 - 22 September) covering Clean Energy topics such as renewables, energy efficiency, smart cities, circular economy, mobility, governance and citizen engagement, all of them leading the Balkan area throughout the coal transition. Read more here
News from the ACT2 Call for CCUS R&D Projects
/The ACT Consortium received 26 proposals that have been independently evaluated and ranked by external CCUS experts. Based on this evaluation, the ACT Consortium notified 12 projects, with a combined budget of €31 million, that they were selected to move forward with award negotiations, which is to take place this summer. Read more here
UK´s Committee on Climate Change Reports
/The Committee on Climate Change (the CCC) is an independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008 providing advice to government on building a low-carbon economy and preparing for climate change. Read more about the CCC´s latest reports here
CCUS and Oil and Gas Technologies Integrated Review Meeting, August 26-30, 2019, USA Pittsburgh
/This meeting will provide attendees with a chance to share in the knowledge and insights gained by more than 200 Department of Energy-sponsored research projects from the Department’s Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Oil and Natural Gas Programs. A mixture of plenary, multi-topic breakout, and interactive poster sessions will provide opportunities for discussion and collaboration on the subject research efforts, both domestic and international. Read more here
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.
Click here for video highlights
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
