Cleaner Use of Coal
According to International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts, global coal consumption will continue at the present level and probably even increase over the next decades. As a means of limiting the contribution of coal to climate change, this has led many regions including the European Union to take a strong interest in carbon capture and storage (CCS).
OCTAVIUS (Optimization of CO2 Capture Technology Allowing Verification and Implementation at Utility Scale) is a project under the 7th EU framework program for research (FP7). CERE is one of 16 academic and industrial partners from 10 countries joined by the common goal of taking CCS closer to industrial application.
More specifically, OCTAVIUS will prepare for the first CCS demonstrators on a thermal power plant scale, implementing first generation CO2 capture processes using amine-type solvents. These processes will be tested at three pilot units in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany respectively. Also further steps, i.e. compression, transport and injection into a geological storage system, will be addressed.
Overall coordinator is the energy corporation IFP Energie Nouvelles (France). The main tasks entrusted to CERE are leading the benchmarking group and maturing the field of communication interfaces for simulation purposes. Overall coordinator of CERE’s efforts is Professor Erling H. Stenby, while Assistant Professor Philip Fosbøl is the daily coordinator.
OCTAVIUS is scheduled to last from 2012-2016. The main funding is provided by the European Commission. Additional funding is provided by the industry participants.
Head of project: Prof. Erling H.Stenby, ehst@kemi.dtu.dk
WP leader: Ass. Prof. Philip Loldrup Fosbøl, plf@kt.dtu.dk
Co-supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Kaj Thomsen, kth@kt.dtu.dk
Co-supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Nicolas von Solms, nvs@kt.dtu.dk
Co-supervisor: Assoc. Prof. John Bagterp Jørgensen, jbj@imm.dtu.dk
PhD student: Jozsef Gaspar: joca@kt.dtu.dk