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"Acceptance of CO2 capture and storage, economics, policy and echnology" FP6 project focused on main obstacles to implementation of CO2 capture and storage technologies in Europe. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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The project aims on developing a dry CO2 capture system for atmospheric and pressurized fluidized bed boilers. The atmospheric option will be developed towards a pilot plant application. For the pressurized option the project seeks for a proof of principle to determine if the advantages of a pressurized capture system can balance the problems known from existing PFBC systems Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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FP6 Integrated Project focused on development of technologies for technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power production from natural gas with coincident hydrogen production. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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The proposed project CAESAR is building on work currently performed with the FP6 IP CACHET. One of the four pre-combustion CO2 capture technologies that are being developed in CACHET is the Sorption Enhanced Water Gas Shift (SEWGS) process. The SEWGS process produces hot, high pressure H2 in a catalytic CO shift reactor with simultaneous adsorption of CO2 on a high temperature adsorbent. The system operates in a cyclic manner with steam for adsorbent regeneration. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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The overall objective of CAPRICE is international cooperation and exchange in the area of CO2-capture using amine processes. Post-combustion capture using amine processes is generally considered to be the leading capture technology which will be implemented first. The long-term aim is to contribute to the implementation of these technologies on a large scale. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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CASTOR addresses "Capture and sequestration of CO2 associated with cleaner fossil fuel plants" and will specifically focus on "Post-combustion capture technologies for CO2" and "CO2 storage confidence building?. The overall goal of this IP is to develop and validate, in public/private partnerships, all of the innovative technologies needed to capture, at the post-combustion stage, transport and store CO2. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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The CO2 Capture Project (CCP) Phase one was conducted between 2001 and 2004 as a partnership of eight of the world’s leading energy companies and three government organsiations undertaking research and developing technologies to help make CO2 capture and geological storage (CCS) a practical reality for reducing global CO2 emissions and tackling climate change. Funding Platform: Industry - Project Status: Completed |
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The CO2 Capture Project Phase 2 (CCP2) Programme (2005-2009) continues the development of the most promising technologies for CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) identified in the CCP1 Programme and also includes analysis of policies that support use of capture and storage methods, as well as efforts to communicate the advances in these areas of the programme. Funding Platform: Industry - Project Status: Completed |
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The CO2 Capture Project Phase 3 (CCP3) has started an oxy-combustion capture trial on a pilot-scale Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit – one of the highest CO2 emitting units in a refinery. The test is expected to bring closer a more cost-effective technology capable of capturing up to 95% of FCC CO2 emissions, potentially equating to some 20-30% of emissions from a typical refinery. Click on the CCP3 link for further information and to download factsheet. Funding Platform: Industry - Project Status: Ongoing |
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CESAR aims for a breakthrough in the development of low-cost post-combustion CO2 capture technology to provide economically feasible solutions for both new power plants and retrofit of existing power plants which are responsible for the majority of all anthropogenic CO2 emissions Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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The project will: - establish industrial-scale metal oxide particle production including availability of suitable commercial raw materials, and also investigate alternate production paths and effects of gas impurities - extend operational experience in long term tests of particles in available prototype, #gt;1000 hour s - scale up process to 100/200 kWth with advanced features, using existing CFB rig - extend and verify modelling capability for scale-up - perform process and technology scale-up to prepare for industrial 20-50 MWe demonstration unit and pro duce update of economic assessment The project will strengthen the partners world-leading position on CLC and grow European capability to deliver a leading edge CO2 capture technology Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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The Carbon Lean Energy Operations (CLEO) project was created after 5 new industry partners (EnBW, EDF, ENEL, AKER and HITACHI) applied to take part in the CESAR project. Since the CESAR project had already been launched, the EC's legal specialists asked for an industrial project to be created. CLEO, which is not managed by the European Commission, supplements the CESAR project Funding Platform: Industrial - Project Status: Ongoing |
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This proposal describes the reintegration of a researcher back into the country of origin. The researcher is in the first year of a 34-month contract working on an innovative project with very significant potential benefit to European industry. A total project cost of 150k is anticipated including a requested EC contribution of 40k. The proposal centres on the capture of a carbon dioxide (CO2), from combustion processes. Success will be achieved by developing membrane technology based on selective oxide -ion-conducting materials in the form of hollow fibres. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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Paving the way towards large scale infrastructure across Europe for the transport and injection of CO2 from zero emission plants this project is developing a roadmap for CO2 transport infrastructure, with 2020 as the target year for start of large-scale CCS in Europe. The roadmap will span across technical to organizational, financial and societal aspects and consider both pipeline and ship transport. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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This NoE "CO2GeoNet" (13 institutes) contains a critical mass of research activity in the area of underground carbon dioxide (CO2) storage. World projections of energy use show that fossil fuel dependency will continue to 2030 and beyond; but sustainability will need CO2 emissions reducing by 60% by 2050. This will be difficult. It will require various strategies. The associated rise in global CO2 emissions, without abatement, will be at an average rate of 1.8% per annum (from the current value of 25Gt p.a., to 38Gt by 2030); a rise of over 50%. This will be catastrophic for the planet's sustainability. Urgent action is needed. Europe's CO2 emissions will rise by an average of 0.6% p.a. up to 2020, from a 2000 level of 3.1Gt to 3.5Gt by 2020. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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CO2NET is a Carbon Dioxide Knowledge Transfer Network, which was initially set up under the European Commission's FP5 Programme. Our participants are amongst the worlds most knowledgeable in the field of Carbon Capture and Storage. Funding Platform: Subscription - Project Status: Ongoing |
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With the increase in EU member countries to 25, the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions Europe-wide also increases. The Kyoto Protocol obligates the EU to cut CO2 emissions by 8% by 2008-2012 and much deeper reductions will probably be required there after. At the same time energy demand is rising and our reliance on fossil fuels is unlikely to diminish in the near to medium term. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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CO2 Thematic Network will facilitate the development of CO2 capture and storage as a safe, technically feasible, socially acceptable mitigation option. This is one component of an overall strategy for the provision of a safe, secure, climate neutral energy supply for the European Union. Elimination technology development is included. The foundations of the European CO2 Thematic Network have been laid over the past 10 months by the CO2NET initiative supported and funded by the EC. Within 10 months, 29 organisations in 9 European countries and the EU funded CO2 projects have committed to support the Thematic Network to accelerate the enabling technologies towards CO2 emissions reduction and develop the European Research Area virtual Centre of Excellence for C02. Membership is expected to exceed 40 organisations in 2002. Funding Platform: FP5 - Project Status: Completed |
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This project on Quantitative failure consequence hazard assessment for next generation CO2 pipelines addresses the fundamentally important and urgent issue regarding the accurate predictions of fluid phase, discharge rate, emergency isolation and subsequent atmospheric dispersion during accidental releases from pressurised CO2 pipelines to be employed as an integral part of large scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) chain Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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The geological storage of CO2 provides a significant option to mitigate CO2 emissions, contributing to the achievement of Kyoto (and successor) targets in a world where economic growth will depend on fossil fuels for the next several decades. The first ste p towards Europe's goal of becoming a hydrogen economy requires the manufacture of hydrogen from fossil fuels. This can be done cost-effectively on a large scale without GHG emissions, if the resultant CO2 can be securely geologically stored. Europe has in vested large research efforts in CO2 geological storage monitoring in several storage types, gaining experience with industrial-scale projects (Sleipner, Weyburn), and smaller "subsurface laboratories" (Ketzin, K12B and Tarnow). A new project (In Salah) no w provides the opportunity to build on this work with a new industrial-scale geological storage project. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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FP6 Integrated Project, dedicated to CO2 storage in a saline aquifer near Ketzin in Germany. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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A completed 5th Framework Programme (FP5) project, focused on storage of CO2 in aquifers, incl. 4 case studies. Funding Platform: FP5 - Project Status: Completed |
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The objective of COACH is to start a strong and durable cooperation between Europe and China to respond to the fast growing energy demand of China. Based on European technologies it will prepare the ground for implementation of large-scale polygeneration energy facilities and including options for coal based electric power generation as well as production of hydrogen and possibly synthetic fuels and provisions for heat integration with surrounding industries. In this endeavour CO2 capture and permanent geological storage - including use for enhanced oil or gas recovery - constitute an inherent and decisive prerequisite. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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COCATE's objective is to analyze the conditions for transporting the flue gases emitted from several CO2-emitting industrial facilities with a view to pooling the capture process, and for exporting large quantities of captured CO2 to storage areas. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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COMET aims at identifying and assessing the most cost effective CO2 transport and storage infrastructure able to serve the West Mediterranean area, namely Portugal, Spain and Morocco. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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DECARBit responds to the urgent need for further research and development in advanced pre-combustion capture techniques to substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel power plants. The project will accelerate the technology development and contribute to the deployment of large scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants in line with the adopted European policies for emission reductions. DECARBit- short for 'Decarbonise it', is established by 16 legal entities constituting the core group of the project. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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One of the technological problems that faces society today is the environmentally friendly and economically favourable separation, capture and storage of gases. Here, CO2 that will be critically important in the future European H2 based economy. It is crucial to find a new route to capture and store CO2 produced during various industrial processes with different conditions. The present project aims to initiate novel synthesis strategies for adsorbents with specific properties with respect to gases, notably carbon dioxide, and operating conditions of industrial processes. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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"Towards Hydrogen and Electricity Production with Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage" ? FP6 project, part of the HYPOGEN initiative, the goal of which is to put the first European full-scale facility for combined hydrogen & power production from fossil fuels into operation by 2015. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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The main objective of ECCO is to establish recommendations for how a European infrastructure for CCS could be built, and identify how CCS value chains could be established, i.e. identify how CCS can become economically viable. It therefore aims to accelerate the development of CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS). Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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Project targets are to pilot an emission free chemical looping coal combustion process at the 100kW and 1MW scales and experience long-term CLC operation, and assess the technical, environmental and economical potential of CLC power plants Funding Platform: RFCS - Project Status: Ongoing |
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"Enhanced capture of CO2" - FP6 Integrated Project focused on pre-combustion capture of CO2. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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"Assessing European Capacity for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide" ? 6th Framework Programme (FP6) project embraces also EU New Member States and Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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For Europe to meet its future energy needs and to attain its environmental targets, whilst maintaining security of supply, a carbon management strategy needs to be adopted that embraces the use of fossil fuels alongside energy from other sources and a strong improvement in energy efficiency. For fossil fuels, especially gas and solids, this must entail the mitigation of CO2 through increased efficiency and the development of technologies that will lead to very low or zero emissions, including the use of CO2 capture and storage. The improvement of the performance of the key components, implementing new power plant concepts and sequestering carbon dioxide is substantial in this respect. FENCO is the preparatory step to form a single major European initiative for energy technologies towards a carbon free power production based on fossil fuels. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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The FENCO-ERA.NET is a key component of an overall carbon management strategy. It complements the HY-CO ERA-NET for hydrogen and fuel cells that in the foreseeable future will rely of fossil based technologies. It also has synergies with the Bioenergy ERA-NET. Global energy demand is anticipated to double by about 2030. Satisfying this increased energy demand will pose many challenges. These include concerns about global climate change, security of energy supply, the role of nuclear power and the us e of renewable energy. FENCO recognises this evolving energy situation and aims to ensure that the EU fossil fuel technology industry can compete effectively in the marketplace. This will be achieved by the networking of Member States Fossil Energy Pro grammes to establish, in conjunction with stakeholders, a critical mass Europe-wide initiative that can compete with the USA and Japan. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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The FLEXI BURN CFB project aims to develop and demonstrate a power plant concept based on the Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) technology combined with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The plant will be based on the super critical once through (SC OTU) technology and oxygen-firing with carbon capture. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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GRACE addresses Task 3.4.1.4.8 of the SUSTDEV-2002 workprogramme: Costs of transport infrastructure use. The proposal aims to support the development of sustainable transport systems by facilitating implementation of transport pricing systems that reflect the costs of infrastructure use. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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"Hybrid Hydrogen - Carbon Dioxide Separation Systems" ? FP6 project devoted to development of hybrid membranes for H2 and CO2 separation for fossil fuels decarbonisation process used for the pre-combustion CO2 capture. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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iCap is an R&D project to develop new CO2 post combustion capture technologies that individually and combined will enable highly efficient and cost effective production of electrical power from fossil fuels with near zero emissions. Targets are to reduce the CO2 capture energy penalty to 4-5% points, and to reduce the associated CO2 avoidance cost to 15€/tonne CO2. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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Following the commitment made by the Kyoto protocol, the ED countries are challenged to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by 8% during 2008-2012. The majority of the CO2 emissions within the EU originates from burning of fossil fuels. As demonst rated by an IEA forecast analysis and the WETO study, fossil fuels will continue to be the dominant source of energy, not only in the EU, but also in a global context. There are several options for CO2 reductions in the power and heat sector. The whole cha in - capture, transport, and long-term storage of CO2 - is an important component of the proposed measures to reduce CO2 emissions during the period of transition, whereby renewable energy systems replace fossil fuels as the main energy resource. Applicati on of this concept will allow a gradual evolution in the energy supply system, minimising adverse effects on the European economy and ensuring Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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Innovative Oxygen Carriers Uplifting chemical-looping combustion The key challenge of making CLC less dependent on expensive nickel-based oxygen carrier materials. This project will investigate two groups of particles: (i) nickel-free materials with and without taking advantage of molecular oxygen uncoupling (CLOU); (ii) the mixed oxides concept, using mainly non-nickel materials with high reactivity towards CO/H2, together with a minor fraction of particles of reduced nickel content acting as reforming catalyst Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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"Assessing European Capacity for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide" ? 6th Framework Programme (FP6) project embraces also EU New Member States and Candidate Countries Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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The greenhouse gas CO2 can be stored in underground coal seams. As a result of this, Coal Bed Methane (CBM) is released from the coal seams and can be produced. The objective of MOVECBM is to improve the understanding of CO2 injected in coal for a long-term reliable and safe storage because CO2 release to the atmosphere can be hazardous. The risk of CO2 release is lowest for CO2 adsorbed to the coal. Therefore, ad- and desorption processes and migration of free CO2 are investigated, also for CBM. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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MUSTANG (A MUltiple Space and Time scale Approach for the quaNtification of deep saline formations for CO2 storaGe) is a four year large-scale project. Its objectives are to develop guidelines, methods and tools for the characterization of deep saline aquifers for long term CO2 storage based on scientific understanding of the underlying critical processes, to develop and test a performance and risk assessment methodology for deep aquifer storage, and build a decision support system to assist the CCS decision-making process. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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The emission of CO2 is a present threat for the global climate. Storage of the greenhouse gas in empty gas fields and aquifers could be a solution. To store CO2 underground it should be captured first. Nanostructured membranes have the potential of doing that. The NANOGLOWA project wants to turn this potential into reality. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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"Optimal nanostructured membranes and installations for CO2 capture from power plants" - an FP6 project focused on research on nanostructured membranes for CO2 capture and separation. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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The purpose of this project is to develop effective strategies for objective communication to stakeholders and the public at large about risks and advantages of CO2 capture and storage and Involving stakeholders and the public in local decision-making on CCS projects Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Completed |
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The use of Solid Recovered Fuels (SRF) derived from mixed-/mono waste streams is expected to result in a significant contribution to the generation of sustainable energy. The demand for alternative waste treatment is addressed by production and direct co-combustion of SRF in pulverised fuel fired power plants as an environmentally friendly, energy efficient, short-term available and cost effective technical solution. Funding Platform: FP6 - Project Status: Completed |
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A completed 5th Framework Programme (FP5) project, concentrated on storage of CO2 in coal seams Funding Platform: FP5 - Project Status: Completed |
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The objective of RISCS (Research into Impacts and Safety in CO2 Storage) is to provide fundamental research on environmental impacts, necessary to underpin frameworks for the safe management of CO2 storage sites. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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SiteChar will facilitate the implementation of CO2 storage in Europe by improving and extending standard site characterisation workflows, and by establishing the feasibility of CO2 storage on representative potential CO2 complexes suitable for development in the near term. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Ongoing |
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STRACO2 “Support to regulatory activities for carbon capture and storage”, FP7 project aiming at reviewing development and implementation of a regulatory framework in the EU for CCS activities. Part of the scope is also supporting CCS collaboration and implementation in the international context, particularly in China. Funding Platform: FP7 - Project Status: Completed |