CERE is represented in several projects in the recently started Innomissions pool 1 projects supported by Innovation Foundation Denmark.
CERE is represented in several projects across four departments (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Environmental and Resource Engineering and Compute) in the recently started Innomissions pool 1 projects supported by Innovation Foundation Denmark. Prof. Erling Stenby, Head of the Department of Chemistry is Vice-Chairman of the Board for the INNO-CCUS partnership (one of the four partnerships), where Morten Stage of TotalEnergies (a CERE member company) is chairman.
From Environmental and Resource Engineering, Researcher Leonardo Mireiles will participate in the project “Borehole Monitoring Solutions for CO2 storage wells, which run from September 2022 to September 2025. This project concerns the monitoring that can be done inside and near onshore wells. It will consider the operational needs for monitoring and describe existing technology, such as well head monitoring (pressure, temperature, flow) and technology that could be improved or adapted for the continuous monitoring of the well. The latter include the use of distributed fiber optics sensing to monitor deformation and temperature changes; and petrophysical cased hole logging technologies used to describe fluid saturation and integrity of cement and near-well rock masses. The project will seek to develop these to a proof-of-concept stage for CO2 storage.
From Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor Alexander Shapiro with participate in the project “CO2flow – Experimental study and modelling of CO2 propagation in geological storage” The project has a duration of 12 months and is about the experimental and modeling study of the CO2 injection in the aquifer, using CT scanning.
Also in DTU Chemical Engineering, the project CORT (CO2 capture demonstration project, 2022-2025) held its kickoff meeting on 20 September. The project (part of the above-mentioned INNO-CCUS partnership) will capture CO2 at Aalborg Portland and Ørsted, comparing innovative solvents. Besides DTU Chemical Engineering and the industrial sites, the project partners are Pentair, DTU Chemistry, Aalborg University and FORCE Technology. Project activities have already begun with the installation of a DTU CO2 capture pilot at Aalborg Portland. Associate Professor Philip Fosbøl, DTU Chemical Engineering is project leader for this large project. If you wish to know more about the project, please take a look here
Associate Professor Wei Yan, DTU Chemistry, is project lead for the project CompReact—Compositional Simulation of Reactive Transport in CO2 Storage, running from 2023-2026. The project will develop robust and efficient compositional geochemical simulation technology and integrate it with the open source GEOSX simulator. TotalEnergies, Noreco, and Ineos are the current industrial partners in the project.
Wei Yan will also participate in ThermoCO2Well, Risk Assessment of the CO2 injection well damage due to thermal stresses running from January 2023 to September 2024. The project will build a numerical simulation model for CO2 flow in the well, coupling flow and geomechanical effects. DTU will support the equilibrium calculation and thermodynamic properties in the study.