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SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

European Carbon Dioxide

Capture and StoragE Laboratory Infrastructure

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Enabling low to zero CO2 emissions from

industry and power generation

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Project Director Sverre Quale Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

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Reduce global warming

Reduce CO2 emissions

Close the

knowledge gaps

Nuclear 8% (8%)

Power gen. efficiency and

fuel switching 3% (1%)

Renewables 21% (23%)

End-use fuel switching 12% (12%)

CCS 17%

End-use fuel and electricity

efficiency 42% (39%)

Reduction needed to

keep global warming

within 2 °C

IEA 2 degrees low carbon path

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ECCSEL vision:

Enabling low to zero CO2 emissions

from industry and power generation

The main objectives of the ECCSEL

initiative

Establish and operate a world class

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

distributed research infrastructure in

Europe

Integrate and upgrade existing research

facilities and supplement with new ones

Enhance European science, technology

development, innovation and education

in the field of CCS.

Enable spin-off activities and generation

of new business

USTUTT

Operations

Center


ECCSEL Preparatory Phase Consortium

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1. Norway (NTNU, SINTEF, RCN)

2. France (IFPEN & BRGM)

3. The Netherlands (TNO)

4. Germany (USTUTT)

5. United Kingdom (BGS)

6. Switzerland (ETHZ)

7. Spain (CIUDEN)

8. Italy (OGS, ENEA)

9. Greece (CERT/ISFTA)

10. Poland (PGI-NRI)

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ECCSEL Preparatory Phase – Timeline and Scope

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ECCSEL Operations Centre

Lean organization:

4-6 employees

Annual budget ≈ 1 MEUR

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Location: NTNU/SINTEF Campus

Trondheim, Norway

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Nano scale

Laboratory

scale

0.001

0.01

0.1

1

10

100

1000

0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00

CO2 loading / (mol CO2/mol AEEA)

pC

O2 /kP

a

40 C

55 C

70 C

95 C

120 C

Laboratory pilot scale

Industrial

pilot scale

Full industrial scale

Gap analysis

Capture and transport: Need for up-scaling promising solutions and

testing at more severe (diverse) experimental conditions (pressure,

temperature, gas compositions, ...)

Storage: Need for a variety of test/pilot

sites throughout Europe

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H2020 Infradev3 Consortium (2015 - 2017)

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ECCSEL Implementation and Transnational Access


Initial inventory

Template of Fact sheet for existing facilities


ECCSEL timeline

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2008 2020 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Events

Funding

Operational/Investment phase

Project funding PP1/PP2

• EC FP7: 2.5 MEUR

• RCN/CLIMIT: 1 MEUR

• Other partners: 1 MEUR

FP7 pre project

granted

Horizon 2020 Infradev-

3 funding

• 3 MEUR

Implementation Upgrades and new builds PP1

ECCSEL on

ESFRI roadmap

Infrastructure

investments (until

2030)

• 200+ MEUR

(Funded by EU,

member states,

funds, industry…)

Preparatory phase

PP2

Signed Letter of

Intent (LoI) and

implementation

MoU agreement,

9 European states

ECCSEL

converted into

an ERIC

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Capture facilities Upgrades

Item Description Priority Category Budgeted investment cost in

million €

1

Experimental facility for development and testing of H2-rich fuels in gas turbine

burners and combustor systems, as well as testing of systems with CO2 enrichment,

oxy-combustion, or enriched air combustion.

Candidate locations: DLR Germany, SINTEF Norway and TNO Netherlands

High Upgrade

existing 5-8

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Oxy-combustion industrial pilot scale; enabled for various solids fuels. Upgrading for

operation periods >1000h.

Candidate location: CIUDEN, Spain

High Upgrade

existing 16-17

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Modifications of existing pilot plant for testing and verification of conceptual capture

techniques using solvents with flexible combustion system in order to enable a broad

range of fuels, and to also mimic industrial gases in systems using post and pre-

combustion techniques.

Possible location: Tiller, Norway

High Upgrade

existing 4.4

4 RI for emission reducing technologies, solvent technology, Post and Pre-combustion,

Candidate locations: SINTEF Norway and TNO Netherlands High

Upgrade

existing 0,6

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Reactor set up testing facility for low Temperature adsorption processes at realistic

operating conditions, Post- and Pre- combustion,

Candidate locations: SINTEF, Norway.

High Upgrade

existing 1-3

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RI for preparation and testing of up-scaled polymeric and hybrid membranes

Candidate locations: NTNU, Norway. High Upgrade

existing 0,8

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Facilities for testing of lab scale inorganic membranes in realistic gas composition

including H2S

Candidate location: SINTEF, Norway

High Upgrade

existing 0,5

8 Semi pilot scale inorganic membrane fabrication

Candidate location: SINTEF Norway High

Upgrade

existing 0,5


New Storage Facilities

Item Description Priority Category Budgeted investment

cost in million €

25

A pilot scale research facility for injection into a fracture to study

migration and attenuation processes during migration through the

overburden. Challenges could be site identification and permitting.

Hontomin and Svalbard may be possible candidates.

High

New or

upgrade

existing

3-8

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A large (i.e. metres-scale) true tri-axial cell to enable cap

rocks. Such a cell will give us the realistic stress testing for

reservoir and opportunity to investigate more realistic stress

distributions. For example, we could run fracture

propagation tests which are not possible in existing

equipment due to boundary effects. A

Medium New 2-3

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Well scale testing facility at well (with realistic diameter) for

evaluating in-situ a range of in-situ potentially damaging processes

specific to CCS wells (temperature changes, pressure changes, low pH

conditions...). This implies: cement-rock bonding, casing-cement

bonding,

casing boundaries, remediation technologies, borehole monitoring.

Medium New 3-5

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Engineering facility to develop new low-cost, advanced, drilling

techniques for site characterisation and monitoring.

Svelvik may be a potential candidate

Medium New 2-4

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Facility to simulate leakage for developing models and integrated

monitoring technologies for offshore storage.

No storage site needed.

High New 3-8


ECCSEL RI membership development plan

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Preparatory Phase (2011-2014)

Norway (host)

• NTNU, SINTEF, RCN

France

• IFPEN, BRGM

The Netherlands

• TNO

Germany

• Universität Stuttgart

United Kingdom

• BGS

Switzerland

• ETH Zürich

Spain

• CIUDEN

Italy

• OGS, ENEA

Greece

• CERT, ISFTA

Poland

• PGI-NRI

Implementation (2015-2016)

• Norway

(Operations Centre)

• The Netherlands

• Spain

• United Kingdom

• Poland

• Italy

• Greece

• France

• Switzerland

(Observer)

Expansion

• Germany

• Czech Republic

• Other member states

• Bilateral agreements

with oversea states

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