R&D Projects

There are R&D activities ongoing globally to develop CCS technology. It is not possible for us to keep track of all R&D projects, but a few of them are listed below. The list is focused on European projects, but this does not mean that most R&D projects take part in Europe, but is simply due to the fact that the Bellona Foundation mostly operates in Europe.

European R&D activities

The European Commission is supporting several R&D projects where the aim is to develop CCS technology. Some of the projects are listed below:

One North Sea Project

Aim: Norway and the United Kingdom wil do a joint study of the potential role for North Sea sub-surface storage of CO2 emitted from European countries.
Homepage: http://ukinnorway.fco.gov.uk/en/working-with-norway/one-north-sea/northsea

Decarbit

Aim: Develop pre combustion capture technologies and novel capture technologies. The aim is to achieve a CO₂ capture cost of 15 euro/tonne CO₂. The project also includes plans for pilot testing
Homepage: http://decarbit.com/

Dynamis

Aim: development of concepts for electricity and hydrogen production with CCS. The establishing a basis for a demonstration plant – called the Hypogen plant – is part of the project.
Home page: http://www.dynamis-hypogen.com/

Encap

Aim: develop and validate a number of pre combustion CO₂ capture technologies that can result in a CO₂ capture cost <20 euro per tonne CO₂ at a CO₂ capture rate of 90%
Homepage: http://www.encapco2.org/events.htm

GeoCapacity

Aim: Assessing the European capacity of CO₂ storage
Home page: http://www.geology.cz/geocapacity

CO2sink

Aim: Physical injection of CCS in a storage site to investigate CO₂ behavious after injection.
Home page: http://www.co2sink.org/

CO2ReMoVe

Aim: Research on monitoring and verification techniques for deep subsurface CO₂ storage.
Home page: http://www.co2remove.eu/

Coach

Aim: preparing for a CCS demonstration plant in China
Home page: http://www.co2-coach.com/

ECCO

Aim: Investigate possible CO₂ value chains and establish recommendations for how to build CCS infrastructures.
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Home page: http://www.sintef.no/Projectweb/ecco/ 

US R&D activities

One North Sea Project

Aim: Norway and the United Kingdom wil do a joint study of the potential role for North Sea sub-surface storage of CO2 emitted from European countries.
Homepage: http://ukinnorway.fco.gov.uk/en/working-with-norway/one-north-sea/northsea

NETL

The National Engineering Laboratory (NETL) performs comprehensive research on all aspects of CCS.
Home page: http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/index.html

Australian R&D activities

CO2CRC

The Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) is one of the world's leading collaborative research organisations focused on CCS.
Home page: http://www.co2crc.com.au/research/