RDI Focus Area 3:
CCUS Solutions for Energy and Heavy Industries
RDI Focus area 3 centers on developing solutions for energy and hard-to-abate industries, ensuring optimal, end-to-end integration across the value chain for Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) applications.
The objective of the focus area is to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors, addressing residual emissions and critical for reaching overall decarbonization targets. It also aims to explore carbon-negative emission technologies, which are essential for compensating residual emissions that cannot be avoided.
Achieving these objectives requires integrating systems and adjusting them to meet each other’s needs to form links in the Net Zero Energy Ecosystem. This work includes:
- Developing integrated carbon capture solutions for energy and hard-to-abate industries across the CCUS value chain.
- Researching and developing the performance of carbon capture technologies connected to heavy industry CO2 sources.
- Optimizing hot potassium carbonate-based capture plants at biomass and waste-to-energy facilities and evaluating business cases for carbon capture and power-to-heat integration in district heating.
- Exploring opportunities for electrifying heavy industries and combustion-based processes through process incorporation.
- Mapping regulations, lifecycle GHG performance, and social impacts of alternative CCUS industrial pathways to identify deployment opportunities and bottlenecks.
- Enhancing feasibility of innovative e-fuel plant concepts with Oxyfuel technologies in power generation for material and cost efficiency.
- Advancing calcium looping integration for hard-to-abate industries through engineering and scale-up of demonstration concepts.
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