The ACT2 project “Digimon” is organizing an online workshop to present the project’s advances. The first day is open to all, whereas the second day is for the DIGIMON partners and ACT partners involved. Please find the Agenda here.
The webinar will provide an overview of the work and results achieved in the last 3 years. The format will include presentations followed by a moderated discussion session where written questions submitted by the audience will be answered. Read more here. Please register via this link. Joining instructions will be shared after registration.
The ACT consortium will organise the 5th annual ACT Knowledge Sharing Workshop as a virtual meeting 16-17 November 2020. The aim is to ensure fruitful knowledge sharing and increase collaboration between the ACT funded projects and other CCUS initiatives.
The workshop will highlight ongoing projects from the second ACT call. Projects from the first ACT call will finalise by the end of 2020 and key messages will be highlighted at a separate workshop early 2021.
You can sign up for the workshop by entering your contact details at this registration form.
The program is listed below and is also available from this bruchure togehter with details about all ACT funded projects.
Chair: Gunter Siddiqi, DETEC
14.00 - Welcome, Ragnhild Rønneberg, ACT Coordinator
14.05 - Impact and added value of ACT, Vassilios Kougionas, the European Commission
14.15 - SENSE – Ground surface monitoring techniques to ensure storage integrity, Bahman Bohloli, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
14.30 - DigiMon – New technologies for cost effective monitoring of CO2 storage sites, Arvid Nøttvedt, NORCE
14.45 - ACTOM – Offshore CO2 storage monitoring based on advanced mathematic, Guttorm Alendal, University of Bergen
15.00 - REX-CO2 – Re-using Existing wells for CO2 storage, Jan Hopman, TNO
15.15 - Break
15.25 - SUCCEED - Synergetic Utilisation of CO2 storage Coupled with geothermal Energy Deployment, Sevket Durucan - Imperial College London
15.40 - Interactive session. The ACT project leaders will answer questions from the audience
Discussion chaired by Mark Ackiewicz, US Department of Energy
16.10 - Wrap up and key messages by meeting chair Gunter Siddiqi, DETEC
Chair: Gerdi Breembroek, RVO
14.00 - Welcome, Ragnhild Rønneberg, ACT Coordinator
14.05 - Keynote presentation - Large-scale CO2 capture from the AVR waste-to-energy plant in Duiven, the Netherlands, Hans Wassenaar, AVR
14.15 - AC2OCEM – Oxyfuel technologies for CO2 capture at cement plants, Jörg Maier, Universität Stuttgart
14.30 - ANICA – Carbonate looping technologies for CO2 capture at lime and cement plants, Jochen Ströhle, Technische Universität Darmstadt
14.45 - NEWEST-CCUS – Waste handling plants with no CO2 emissions, Romain Viguier, Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (SCCS)
15.00 - FUNMIN – Mineralisation of CO2 to create valuable products, Devis Di Tommaso, University of London
15.15 - Break
15.25 - LAUNCH – More effective amines for CO2 capture, Peter van Os - TNO
15.40 - MemCCSea – Towards a carbon neutral ship, Georgios Skevis, CPERI/CERTH
15.55 - PRISMA – Molecular science to design new CO2 capture solutions, Susana Garcia, Heriot-Watt University
16.10 - Interactive session. The ACT project leaders will answer questions from the audience
Discussion chaired by Mark Ackiewicz, US Department of Energy
16.40 - Wrap up and key messages by meeting chair Gerdi Breembroek, RVO
The Laboratory of Steam Boilers and Thermal Plants-School of Mech. Eng. NTUA , in the context of BIOCON-CO2 research project, is happy to announce that the postponed "COOLING THE EARTH SUMMER SCHOOL II: FOCUS ON BIO-CCU" summer school on CO2 capture and valorisation technologies will be hosted online between 29/9 - 1/10/2020 due to measures to tackle COVID-19 spread. Read more here
The ACT3 call is now open for applications and a webinar presenting the call was arranged 26 August 2020.
The ACT3 call was presented by Aage Stangeland from the ACT Call Secretariat and the focus of the presentation was on how to build a consortium and how to submit an application to the ACT3 call.
A recording of the webinar is available here.
The slides presented at the webinar can be downloaded from this link.
A full description of the call is available from here.
Please keep in mind that the due date for submitting pre-proposals is 10 November 2020 at 13:00 CET (Central European Time)
The ACT3 call is now open for applications. There will be several webinars with information about the call:
Webinar 26 August 15:00 CEST about the ACT3 Call
The webinar will be arranged by the ACT coordinator as a Teams meeting. The webinar will include a 20 minutes presentation of the ACT3 Call followed by a Q&A session. The webinar will be recorded and published at the ACT website.
You can register for the webinar by sending a short email to the organiser, Aage Stangeland at ast@rcn.no
The webinar will mainly be a repetition of a previous webinar available from this link.
Webinar 28 August targeting applicants from India
A separate webinar targeting Indian applicants will be set up 28 August at 14.30-15.30 IST. More information is available from this link.
Webinar 31 August targeting applicants from the Nordic countries
This webinar is arranged by the Nordic Energy Research (NER) and is targeting applicants from the Nordic countries that are interested in learning more about NER's role in the ACT3 call. Read more and sign up here.
The ACT consortium welcomes India as partner and contributor to the ACT third call (ACT3). The Department of Science & Technology (on behalf of Indian Federal Ministry of Science & Technology) will make available funds of approx. 1,0 M€ to the ACT3 Call. Read more here. Please find the revised call text here
Following the successful ACT1 and ACT2 calls in 2016 and 2018 respectively, which resulted in twenty research projects being funded, the New ACT Call invites transnational research proposals that address the technological, environmental, social and economic challenges required to accelerate CCUS.
The intention is that new projects funded through the new ACT Call will make a significant contribution to establish CCUS as an international climate change mitigation tool.
The ACT community has welcomed new members since its first call. The following countries and regions participate in the new ACT Call: the Canadian province of Alberta, Europe’s Nordic Countries via Nordic Energy Research, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the USA.
Read more about the new ACT Call here.
Download the full Call Text for the new ACT Call.
A recently released report, “Safe Geologic Storage of Captured Carbon Dioxide: Two Decades of DOE’s Carbon Storage R&D Program in Review” dives into how the department and NETL and other national laboratories, research organizations, and industry stakeholders have worked collaboratively to meet the challenge of addressing the emission of greenhouse gases while ensuring the continued use of fossil fuels that underpin our nation’s economic prosperity.
Read the Press release
Download the report
Five applications were selected for negotiations from the FOA under the CarbonSAFE initiative, which seeks to characterize storage complexes of at least 50 million metric tons and accelerate wide-scale deployment of CCUS. Read more here
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy announced up to $131 million for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) research and development (R&D) projects through one new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) and the winners of five project selections from a previous FOA. Read more here
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide up to $22 million for research aimed at achieving breakthroughs in the effort to capture carbon dioxide directly from ambient air. Read more here
The Elegancy ACT project will present its findings on CCS and hydrogen in a webinar series. The series starts off on 18 June with a presentation of key findings and recommendations and it includes high-level participation from the European Commission and Forschungzentrum Jülich. Read more here
LAUNCH, an international research project focusing on the development of novel carbon capture solvents for use at scale by industry and as part of efforts to speed the delivery of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) worldwide, is organising its first webinar on Wed 20 May, 11:00 - 12:00 CEST. Read more here
On Tuesday 21 April, the Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS Initiative hosted a webinar on Direct Air Capture of CO2. Recording and slides are now available here .
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
