Sixth EAGE Workshop on CO2 Geological Storage, 4 - 6 April, 2022, London, UK

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To meet the Paris Agreement’s ambition on tackling climate change, large scale implementation of CarbonCapture and Storage (CCS) is considered essential. This has been investigated in several research initiatives during the last decade and the objective of this workshop is to present key advances made, discuss remaining technology gaps and review a way forward. This event is organized with the essential support of the EAGE technical committee members, i.e. industry specialists within the event topic's area. Read more here

ACT ERANET under H2020 has ended - Final Reports available

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ACT has now successfully completed 5 years of a productive and collaborative trajectory and has officially ended as a European Commission Initiative. ACT as a transnational funding scheme and knowledge sharing platform for CCUS projects and results was conceived in 2015. It was officially kicked off in early 2016 as a five-year initiative between funding partners from 9 countries as an ERANET scheme under H2020. Since then, the ACT consortium has grown to 16 countries/regions (including the USA, the Alberta region in Canada and India). In these years, ACT has succeeded in providing great results, impacting on the CCUS scientific community, the industry and society. The  Final Deliverables to the European Commission can give an overview and a detailed report on what ACT has envisaged and what it has achieved so far. The follow-up, monitoring and close interaction with the running projects will however continue. The ACT2-projects end in the autumn 2022/winter 2023 and the ACT3-projects will end in the autumn 2024/winter 2025.

D1.4 The ACT Final Report

D4.4 Evaluation Report on Project Results

D7.2 Collaboration with European CCUS Initiatives

D5.3 Evaluation Report on Communication

23&24 November 2021, CCUS conference on Development, Challenges and Opportunities for CCUS in Europe’s fight against climate change-Postponed until Spring 2022

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On 23-24 November 2021, CATO, the Norwegian Embassy in The Hague, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and ACT, will jointly organize a two-day CCUS conference in which the development, challenges and opportunities for CCUS in Europe’s fight against climate change will be discussed. Read more here. Please check for any updates here

ACT in the CETP (Clean Energy Transition Partnership) Dialogue series

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ACT kicked off the Clean Energy Transition Partnership Programme Dialogues on 15 January 2021. The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) will be a multilateral and strategic partnership of national and regional RDI programmes in European Countries and beyond, with the aim to accelerate innovation by joining forces internationally. The CETP will start in 2022 and will build on existing H2020 ERANETs. This Programme Dialogues series aims to highlight existing collaborations and good practices, mainly in existing ERANETs. The recording is available on youtube here

LAUNCH Webinar 2 on CO2 Degradation Database-collecting datasets for solvent R&D, 15 April 2021, 11-12 p.m. CEST

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LAUNCH project organises its second webinar to introduce the new LAUNCH CO2 Degradation Database, which will share information and analytics on CO2 capture solvent degradation derived from their own solvent testing programme but also from other solvent-testing campaigns.  

 

The LAUNCH project aims to improve the efficiency and economics of CO2 capture systems to support the growth of a CCUS industry and enable Europe's energy and industrial sectors to decarbonise.  

 

This event is open to all CCUS stakeholders but, in particular, those who will contribute to and/or use LAUNCH datasets, such as industry and project developers. 

 

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8311002099976941581 

 

Please share this invitation with any colleagues, groups or networks who may be interested in joining us. You can also help us promote the event by sharing on social media – Twitter @launchccus and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/30168566/admin/ 

Final outputs from the ACT2 ERANET ALIGN-CCUS project

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The ALIGN-CCUS project, funded through the ERA-NET ACT programme, focused on delivering tools and guidelines to support the quick and cost-effective delivery of large-scale *carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania and the UK.

This international partnership of science and industry has concluded three years of multi-disciplinary research aimed at transforming Europe’s industrial regions into economically robust, low-carbon centres by 2025.

See Press Releases in English, Romanian, German, Dutch and Norwegian, respectively. Read more on the project website here.

Final report from ELEGANCY

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Summary and key messages from ELEGANCY

ELEGANCY is an ERA-Net Cofund ACT project with the aim to help fast-tracking the decarbonization of Europe’s energy system via hydrogen and CCS. This has been achieved by overcoming specific scientific, technological and economic/legal barriers and by undertaking five national case studies adapted to the condi-tions in the partner countries Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK. ELEGANCY con-sists of 22 partners from industry and academia/research. More information can be found at the project web-site.

The final report from ELEGANCY is available here.

Key messages

• Europe is dependent on all main available decarbonization options – including hydrogen and CCS – to address the European-parliament declared climate emergency from November 2019 and reduce CO2 emissions be cut by 55% by 2030 and further to net zero by 2050.

• The European parliament has also supported greater action for implementing commercial-scale CCS.

• Hydrogen can be delivered at scale – fast-tracking the 2050 net-zero emission goal.

• Fuel-switching to hydrogen will:

o Curb emissions from distributed sources, such as transport, industrial processes, heating and cooling.

o Quickly decarbonize heavy industry in the EU and so maintain economic activity and jobs.

• Hydrogen produced both from renewable energy sources and from natural gas with CCS will be needed.

• Climate positive hydrogen from biomass with CCS can play an important role in compensating CO2 emissions from hard-to-abate sectors, despite limited sustainable biomass resources.

• CCS is an efficient and safe way to eliminate CO2 emissions.

• The Hydrogen Pathway needs appropriate financial, regulatory and political frameworks.

• Hydrogen should form part of the future European energy system.

• A comprehensive hydrogen infrastructure is required, also using existing assets.

• Open access infrastructure for CO2 transport and storage is required – being able to permanently store CO2 will enable new pathways to climate neutrality.

• Full-scale deployment of hydrogen with CCS should start now.

• Recommended key principles for market re-design are:

o Integrated energy system planning and governance tools.

o Efficient and coordinated permitting procedures.

o Access to the grid and gas grid conversion.

o Operation of transport networks and related infrastructures.

Final report from Pre-ACT

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The Pre-ACT project brought together a partnership of 10 research institutes and industrial companies to target three key challenges for CO2 storage: capacity, confidence, and cost. The focus of the project was on improving strategies for monitoring and management of the pore pressure distribution within a storage complex

Details are available in the final report from the Pre-ACT project

ACT presentations at GHGT-15

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There will be a lot of interesting presentations from ACT-projects at GHGT-15.

The presentations from the ACT projects are listed below in order to make easy for everyone to se what the ACT projects will be presenting.

ACT2 projects

 

ACTOM

The stoichiometric Cseep method: A process-based technique to simultaneously detect CO2 seepage at the seafloor and quantify any extra carbon dissolved in the sampled seawater, A. M. Omar et al.; Oral paper 490

 

The prediction of impact and anomaly criteria for leakage detection from offshore carbon storage sites through a comprehensive coupled network of hydrodynamic and biogeochemical models, Marius Dewar, Jerry Blackford et al.; Oral paper 570.

 

A toolbox to assist in designing marine monitoring programs for offshore storage sites, Jerry Blackford, Guttorm Alendal et al. ACTOM consortium.  Oral paper 579.

 

Practicing responsible innovation by engaging stakeholders with marine monitoring of storage sites, Dorothy Dankel et al. ACTOM consortium, Poster 553.

 

Marine Monitoring of Storage Sites, Potential Conflicts in Regulations and Technological Capabilities, Schütz, Omar, Carpentier et al. ACTOM consortium, Poster 546.

 

ANICA

Efficient CO2 Capture from Lime Production by an Indirectly Heated Carbonate Looping Process, Jochen Ströhle, Session 4G - Calcium Looping Tuesday, Mar 16, 2021

DigiMon

Digital monitoring of CO2 storage projects (DigiMon), Arvid Nøttvedt, Kirsti Midttømme,  Marie B. Holstad, Anna Stork, Martha Lien, Hanneke Puts

Modelling the DAS response for offshore CO2 storage sites, Vincent Vandeweijer, Bob Paap, Arie Verdel, Rob Mellors, Alan F. Baird, Anna L. Stork, Antony Butcher

 

NEWEST-CCUS

An initial assessment of the value of Allam Cycle power plants with liquid oxygen storage in future GB electricity system, Charlotte Mitchell, Vitali Avagyan, Hannah Chalmers, Mathieu Lucquiaud. Link to abstract.

Selective Exhaust Gas Recycling in Gas Turbines with CO2 capture: A comprehensive technology assessment, Mathieu Lucquiaud; Session 7D, Wednesday Mar 17, 2021

Negative Emissions in the Waste-to-Energy Sector: A Wasted Opportunity so far?, Mathieu Lucquiaud, Session 7B, Wednesday Mar 17, 2021

PrISMa

Process-informed design of tailor-made sorbent materials for energy efficient carbon capture (PrISMa)

Susana Garcia(a)*, Berend Smit(b), Jeffrey A. Reimer(c,d), Rahul Anantharaman(e)

a) Research Center for Carbon Solutions (RCCS), School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh,UK

b) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

c) Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

d) Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

e) SINTEF Energy Research, Sem Sælandsvei 11, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway

  

Advanced methodology for screening of novel adsorption materials for cost-efficient CO2 capture

Charithea Charalambous(a)*, Luca Riboldi(b)*, Enrique García-Díez(a,c), Viktoriia Kulakova(a), John Young(a), Eva Sanchez-Fernandez(d), Elias Moubarak(c), Sauradeep Majumdar(c), Kadioglu Özge Kadioglu(c), F. Pelin Kinik(c), Christopher P. Ireland(c), Jabir Ali Ouassou(b), Simon Roussanaly(b), Chao Fu(b), Rahul Anantharaman(b), Mijndert van der Spek(a), Berend Smit(c), Susana Garcia(a)

a) Research Center for Carbon Solutions (RCCS), School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh,UK

b) SINTEF Energy Research, Sem Sælandsvei 11, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway

c) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

d) Process Monkey, EH42 1TL, Dunbar, UK

 

Investigating H2O and CO2 co-adsorption on amine-functionalised solid sorbents for direct air capture

Poster presentation

REX-CO2

A Probabilistic Well Integrity Analysis Workflow for Leakage Risk Assessment and Re-use Selection, Bogdan Orlic, Al Moghadam, Logan Brunner, Marianne van Unen, Mariëlle Koenen, Kaj van der Valk, Jens Wollenweber

 

A screening tool for assessing feasibility of reusing existing oil and gas wells for CCUS operations, Rajesh Pawar, Logan Brunner, Laurent Cangémi, Bailian Chen, Alexandra-Constanta Dudu, Vivien Esnault, Erica Greenhalgh, Dylan Harp, Nils Opedal, Kaj van der Valk, John Williams

 

SENSE

How monitoring mm-scale ground surface can help safe storage of CO2? Bahman Bohloli

Authors: Bohloli B., Bateson L., Berndt C., Bjørnarå T.I., Eiken O., Estublier A., Frauenfelder R., Karstens J., Orio R.M., Meckel T., Mondol N.H., Park J., Soroush A., Soulat A., Sparrevik P., Vincent C., Vöge M., Waarum I.K., White J., Xue Z., Zarifi Z., Gutiérrez I.Á., Vidal J.A.M.

Presentation: Oral

 

SUCCEED

A CO2 storage and utilisation project aimed at mitigating against greenhouse gas emissions from geothermal power production

Poster presentation by Şevket Durucan, Anna Korre, Mahmut Parlaktuna, Erdinç Şentürk, Karl-Heinz Wolf, Athena Chalari, Richard de Kunder, Bergur Sigfússon, Flavio Poletto

 

ACT1 projects

 

DETECT

Modelling of long-term along-fault flow of CO2 from a natural reservoir ,

Jeroen Snippe(a)*, Niko Kampman(a), Kevin Bisdom(a), Tim Tambach(a), Rafael March(b), Tomos Phillips(b), Nathaniel Forbes Inskip(b), Florian Doster(b), Andreas Busch(b)

a) Shell Global Solutions International B.V., Grasweg 31, 1031 HW Amsterdam, The Netherlands

b) Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, The Lyell Centre, Edinburgh, UK

 

ECOBASE

CO2EOR as a pathway to create a CCS infrastructure, Berenblyum, R.; Nermoen, A.; L. Kollbotn; Khrulenko, A.

 

CO2-EOR business opportunities in Romania and Turkey, Bos, C.; Dudu, A.; Synauc, C.; Nermoen, A. (poster)

 

GASTECH

Operating experience of a 50-kW scale pressurized Gas Switching Combustion cluster for power production with integrated CO2 capture

 

Combined Syngas and Hydrogen Production using Gas Switching Technology

 

3DCAPS

3D-Printing of Adsorbents for Increased Productivity in Carbon Capture Applications (3D-CAPS), by TNO, SINTEF and UBB.

 

PreACT

Impact potential of hypersaline brines released into the marine environment as part of reservoir pressure management, Blackford J., Dewar M., Espie T., Wilford S., and Bouffin N.

 

Pressure control and conformance management for safe and efficient CO2 storage – lessons learned in the Pre-ACT project, Eliasson P., Cerasi P, Romdhane A., White J.C., Schmidt-Hattenberger C., Carpentier S., Grimstad A.-A., Lothe A.E.

 

How to evaluate and quantify safe CO2 storage? Workflow demonstration on the Smeaheia area, offshore Norway, Lothe A.E., Bergmo P.E.S, Emmel B.U., Grimstad A.-A., and Eliasson P.

 

Quantitative decision analysis for CO2 storage conformance management: A synthetic case study at Smeaheia, North Sea, Romdhane A., Barros E., Bergmo P.E.S., Leeuwenburgh O., and Grimstad A.-A. (poster)

 

Pre-injection Site Investigations in a Poro-elastic Description of the Svelvik Ridge, Weinzierl W., Barros E., Grimstad A., Wiese B., Leeuwenburgh O., and Schmidt-Hattenberger C.  (poster)

 

ELEGANCY

Adsorption in the context of clean hydrogen production: process intensification by integrating H2 purification and CO2 capture, A. Streb

 

Tools and options for hydrogen and CCS cluster development and acceleration – UK case study, ELEGANCY project, M. Akhurst

 

Modelling of CO2 and H2O interaction during adsorption cycles on hydrotalcite for SEWGS applications, F. Sebastiani et al

 

Need for carbon removal technologies to meet stringent climate targets in Switzerland – an energy system model based analysis, C. Bauer

 

Hydrogen production from natural gas and biomethane with carbon capture and storage – a techno-environmental analysis, C. Bauer

 

Hydrogen production with CCS to accelerate the decarbonization of the European power, industrial and transport sector - Key findings from the ACT ELEGANCY project's national case studies, S. Roussanaly et al

 

ALIGN

Process integration of advanced amine-based solvents in power and industrial plants: A new benchmark for post-combustion carbon capture, by Heriot Watt University, SINTEF, and TNO

 

Analysis of flexible operation of CO2 capture plants: Predicting solvent emissions from conventional and advanced amine systems, by Heriot Watt University, RWE and TNO

 

ALIGN-CCUS: Results of the ERA-ACT project on the full CCUS chain to accelerate implementation of decarbonisation in industrial areas, by TNO, SINTEF, BGS, RWE, and LU

 

Impact of Dissolved Oxygen Removal on Solvent Degradation for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture, by TNO, NTNU, and SINTEF

 

Aerosol Growth in a Post Combustion CO2 Capture Absorber Using the 2-Amino-2-Methyl-1-Propanol/Piperazine (CESAR 1) Solvent, by NTNU and SINTEF

 

First Process Results and Operational Experience with CESAR1 Solvent at TCM with High Capture Rates (ALIGN-CCUS Project), by TCM

 

Atmospheric emissions of amino-methyl-propanol, piperazine and their degradation products during the 2019-20 ALIGN-CCUS campaign at the Technology Centre Mongstad, by TCM

 

CO2 Capture and work environmental sampling lessons learned, by TCM

 

Best practices for the measurement of 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol, piperazine and their degradation products in amine plant emissions, Poster by TCM

 

Communicating site technical, permitting and planning readiness for CO2 storage operations using the ALIGN-CCUS framework of storage readiness levels, Maxine Akhurst, Karen Kirk, Filip Neele, Alv-Arne Grimstad, Michelle Bentham, Per Bergmo 

 

CO2 pipeline transport and storage network cost modelling and muulti-period multi-scenario stochastic optimization, Zhenggang Nie, Anna Korre, Sevket Durucan, Denis Fraga, Tom Mikunda, Filip Neele

 

ALIGN-CCUS: Results of the 18-month test with aqueous AMP/PZ solvent at the pilot plant at Niederaussem – solvent management, emissions and dynamic behavior, by RWE, TNO, and HWU

 

ALIGN-CCUS: Production of dimethyl ether from CO2 and its use as an energy carrier - Results from the CCU demonstration plant, by RWE, MHPSE, AKEU, FZ Jülich, RWTH, FEV, and TNO

 

Life Cycle Assessment for full chain CCU demonstration in the ALIGN-CCUS project –dimethyl ether and polyoxymethylen dimethyl ethers production from CO2 and its usages in the mobility and electricity sectors, by FZ Jülich and RWE

 

Design of a multi-user intermediate storage facility, by SINTEF

 

Multi-period cost optimisation of multi-mode carbon capture and storage chains, by ICL