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Providing access to cost-efficient, replicable, safe and flexible CCUS

Project description

New CCUS technology for a climate-neutral Europe

The EU Green Deal aims at transforming the EU into a resource-efficient economy with no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. In this context, the EU-funded ACCSESS consortium will develop replicable carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technology to pave the way to a climate-neutral Europe. Specifically, it will reduce emissions and contribute to the production of climate-neutral end products. ACCSESS will provide safe, cost-efficient, flexible and replicable CCUS addressing a range of sectors – from pulp and paper to biorefining. The project will demonstrate cost-efficient CO2 capture and use in industrial facilities. It will provide access routes for CO2 captured from European industries to transport and storage infrastructures under development in the North Sea.

Objective

ACCSESS – providing access to cost-efficient, replicable, safe and flexible CCUS. Main objectives:
1)Demonstrate, at TRL7, and integrate cost-efficient CO2 capture and use in industrial installations, to enable permanent Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
2)Provide access routes for CO2 captured from European industries to the flexible transport and storage infrastructures under development in the North Sea
3)Leverage on CDR to drive societal integration of CCUS towards urban and European sustainability

ACCSESS takes a cross-sectorial approach, addressing Pulp and Paper, Cement, Waste to Energy, and Biorefining, that all have the potential to contribute to CDR.
ACCSESS will test at TRL7 the combination of an environmentally benign, enzymatic solvent (regenerated at 80oC) and a Rotary Packed Bed (RPB) absorber. Tests at 2 tpd CO2 captured will be done at a pulp and paper mill in Sweden and a cement kiln in Poland. Recarbonation of demolition concrete fines will be demonstrated at TRL7 (CCU).
CCUS chains from inland Europe and the Baltics to the North Sea will be developed and optimized, with an open-source tool. Low pressure ship-based CO2 transport (7 bar) for 50% cost cuts is developed, and also safe CO2 loading and offloading.
The ACCSESS concept is centred around the project vision to Develop replicable CCUS pathways towards a Climate Neutral Europe in 2050. ACCSESS will improve CO2 capture integration in industrial installations (20-30% cost cuts) as a key element to accelerate CCUS implementation, address the full CCUS chain and the societal integration of CCUS.
ACCSESS has the ambition unleash the ability of CCUS to contribute to the ambitious EU Green Deal transformation strategy. The project is dedicated to developing viable industrial CCUS business models. ACCSESS will engage with citizens and citizens, explaining how CCUS can contribute to the production of climate neutral or climate positive end-products in a sustainable cities' context.

Call for proposal

H2020-LOW-CARBON-CIRCULAR-INDUSTRIES-2020

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Sub call

H2020-LCCI-2020-INEA-singlestage

Coordinator

SINTEF ENERGI AS
Net EU contribution
€ 3 499 250,00
Address
Sem Saelandsveg 11
7465 Trondheim
Norway

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Total cost
€ 3 499 250,00

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