Gassnova, the Norwegian state enterprise for CCS, advices the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on CCS and manages the state interests in related projects. The company is the majority owner of Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), which has been in operation for about two years and has operated the project planning of full scale projects like Kårstø and Mongstad. TCM has two carbon capture testing facilities, which combined has a capacity of 100,000 tons of CO2 yearly. These activities are at the forefront of international CCS development.
“The group at CERE is known for developing thermodynamic models that are very useful for us. Experimental testing is costly. Each time you can achieve your results by computing instead you have saved a lot of money,” says Dr. Muhammad Ismail Shah of Gassnova.
“Especially the developments in models that are able to handle CO2 capture, including the chilled ammonia process which is used at one of the two Norwegian plants, and electrolyte systems are of great interest to us. CERE is providing us with good tools, and we provide them with actual plant data – non-confidential - which they can use for validating their models. Both sides are necessary for obtaining the overall understanding of the processes and for developing still better tools for simulation and design of carbon capture facilities.”