CCS in UK and EuropeCurrent Status and Potential Developments

and the Role of the UKCCSRCJon Gibbins

Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon CaptureUniversity of Edinburgh

The UKCCSRC is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Council as part of the Research Councils UK Energy Programme

DirectorUK CCS Research Centre

jon.gibbins@ed.ac.ukwww.ukccsrc.ac.uk

CURC Fall 2013 General Membership Meetings, October 2-3, 2013Edison Electric Institute, 4th Floor, Conference Rooms A-C, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,

Washington, DC 20004

The UK CCS Research Centre – launched April 2012Focal point and driving force for UK CCS fundamental research and academic analysisSupporting long-term strategic research programmes and national facilities (i.e. filling gap in national capabilities)Working with range of stakeholders to establish pathways to deliver research results to the end users£10M funding over 5 years from EPSRC + £3M from DECC + £2.5M from participantsIndependent Board appointed by EPSRCMembership open to all academic researchers with shareable research projects, current or within last 3 years – see www.ukccsrc.ac.uk – currently over 150 members, ~ £70M projectsFirst UKCCSRC call for proposals £1.8M for ten projects

Operating Large-scale Integrated CCS Projects

GCCSI Listing and analysis of CCS projects around the world, http://www.globalccsinstitute.com/projects/browse

SalineFormation

EOR

2050 CCS Scenariowww.sccs.org/cns

Industrikraft Möre AS Norway – Sargas

Test Centre Mongstad (TCM) – amine, ammonia

Peterhead Gas CCS Project – Cansolv amine

Captain Clean Energy Project – Siemens IGCC+pre-comTeesside Low Carbon – IGCC+pre-comWhite Rose CCS Project – Alstom oxyfuelC.GEN North Killingholme Power Project – IGCC+precomDon Valley Power Project – IGCC+pre-comRotterdam Opslag en AfvangDemonstratieproject (ROAD) – Commercial amine on supercritical coal

GCCSI Listing and analysis of CCS projects around the world, http://www.globalccsinstitute.com/projects/browse

The UK CCS Commercialisation Competition makes available £1 billion capital funding, together with additional support through the UK Electricity Market Reforms.

Opened in April 2012, closed in July 2012Four projects shortlisted in October 2012 Revised proposal January 2013Two preferred bidders 20 March 2013

Peterhead Project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland - Shell and SSE.White Rose Project in Yorkshire, England - Alstom, Drax Power, BOC and National Grid.

18 month FEED decision ‘imminent’FID by the Government in early 2015 - up to two projects.Captain Clean Energy and Teeside Low Carbon in reserve

https://www.gov.uk/uk-carbon-capture-and-storage-government-funding-and-support

The UK has a 4-year (2011-2015) £125 million cross-government CCS research, development and innovation programme. Funding from Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) and the Research Councils. £55 million to support fundamental research and understanding£27 million to support the development and demonstration of CCS components and next generation technologies (such as turbines or new solvents)£43 million for pilot scale projects to bridge the gap between research and commercial scale deploymentIn total, around 100 separate projects are being funded.

https://www.gov.uk/uk-carbon-capture-and-storage-government-funding-and-support

European Industrial Initiative on CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS)Implementation Plan 2013-2015

www.pact.ac.ukPost Combustion Capture PlantMohamed Pourkashanian and Chris Davies, MEP, 14 August 2013

EU regulation and funding proposals – Chris DaviesCommittee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety DRAFT REPORT on implementation report 2013: developing and applying carbon capture and storage technology in Europe (2013/2079(INI))

6. Calls on the Commission to propose creating an EU Industrial Innovation Fund from the sale of 600m allowances from the EU ETS to support the development of CCS flagship projects, other innovative low-carbon technologies, and measures to reduce CO2 emissions from energy-intensive industries;

7. Believes that longer-term CCS support should be derived principally from the production and import of the fossil fuels responsible for the release of CO2; calls on the Commission to propose the introduction from 2020 of a system requiring the purchase of CCS certificates proving the storage of CO2 in proportion to that embedded within their products;

8. Notes the decision of the European Investment Bank to prohibit lending for construction of coal power plants that will emit more than 550g CO2 /kWh; emphasises that without financial support to develop CCS, the introduction of stringent emissions performance standards will be essential;

~HRSG

Advanced 

Post 

Combustion 

CaptureGas turbine

Air inlet

Exhaust Gas Recycle ‐

EGR

CO2

Transfer & Recycle ‐

CTR

Gas in

Low 

carbon 

electricity 

out

Decarbonised 

flue gas out

Decarbonised 

flue gas out CO2

transfer

Water/steam 

injection

Gas turbine capture systems

EPSRC/UKCCSR Gas-FACTS Projecthttp://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/J020788/1

Gas Turbine Facilities with EGR + HATFuel Flexibility: NG, Biogas, Liquid Fuel, Biofuel & H2 Enriched Gas

http://www.ukccsrc.ac.uk/system/files/Inventys%20Howden%20UKCCSRC%20%5BMay%202013%5D.pdf

http://www.ukccsrc.ac.uk/system/files/Inventys%20Howden%20UKCCSRC%20%5BMay%202013%5D.pdf

NET Power’sAllam Cycle

for natural gas

http://www.modernpowersystems.com/features/featurenet-powers-co2-cycle-the-breakthrough-that-ccs-needs

NET Power’s Allam Cycle

http://www.modernpowersystems.com/features/featurenet-powers-co2-cycle-the-breakthrough-that-ccs-needs

September 2011

Scottish Low Carbon Investment Conference

(For data see also http://cdn.globalccsinstitute.com/sites/default/files/publications/85746/making-business-case-ccs.pdf)

A project that aligns policy objectives

the reverse effect

Central N 

SeaEOR

Don 

ValleyPower 

Plant

CO2Pumping Saline

Storage

18

5 MT per annum CO2 capture

£3 bn capital cost

Low carbon power (low emissions)

CO2 for EOR (tax revenue)

• FEED complete, section 36 planning awarded

• Awarded €180m grant under European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR)

• NER application in place

• Await UK process (CFD and debt)

(For data see also http://cdn.globalccsinstitute.com/sites/default/files/publications/85746/making-business-case-ccs.pdf)

Don Valley ~ 800 MW IGCC, Team with BP CCS project experience

http://www.2coenergy.com/don_valley_power_project.html

The 2Co project team has unparalleled commercial and technical experience in carbon capture, utilisation and storage technologies needed across the full project chain.

Shell, BOC/Linde and GE are key technology suppliers to the Don Valley CCS Project.

The technologies they will use have been tested and proven at scale around the world.

Samsung C&T and BOC have both recently agreed to take significant equity stakes in 2Co’s onshore plant.

(For data see also http://cdn.globalccsinstitute.com/sites/default/files/publications/85746/making-business-case-ccs.pdf)

Summaryo EU recognises that CCS may be needed eventually but is not

pushing hard enough to deliver flagship projects, although CCS readiness is nominally required in most circumstances

o North Sea Basin a focus, Netherlands and UK currently looking for FID on up to 3 projects (Norway recently dropped out):

Netherlands – ROAD, as soon as funding is establishedUK – up to two (Peterhead & White Rose) early 2015

o No supplementary funding readily available from EORo Obvious that CCS needs to be able to access similar subsidies

to renewables for deploying a novel, low-carbon technology but only the UK in the EU seriously progressing this

o Natural gas CCS a priority as well as coal CCSo Growing interest in CCS on industry (but needs power projects

for transport and storage infrastructure)o Significant R&D and other capacity building in the meantime

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