£2.6m for CCS research
20 Jun 2014
Fourteen Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) research projects in the UK are set to receive a combined £2.6 million in funding.
The UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) has today announced the allocation of £2.57million from its research budget to support 14 new CCS research projects.
These projects, including seven on CO2 capture, five on CO2 cross-cutting issues and two on CO2 storage have attracted a total of £2 million in additional co-funding and support from a range of industrial partners.
Carbon Capture and Storage is a key part of our low carbon energy future
Michael Fallon MP
Energy minister Michael Fallon made the announcement during a visit to the Knowledge Transfer Centre at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in South Yorkshire after he formally opened the UKCCSRC’s Pilot-Scale Advanced CO2-Capture Technology (PACT) facilities in Beighton.
“Carbon Capture and Storage is a key part of our low carbon energy future,” said Fallon.
“Research and innovation is essential to help keep up the momentum in this sector, so I am pleased to announce £2.5million from the UKCCSRC to support 14 new projects.”
Likewise, UKCCSRC director Jon Gibbins said: “It is great to have the UKCCSRC’s own research portfolio now fully under way.
“Our big tasks for the next three years of the Centre’s life will be to see these projects executed successfully and to link them, and all the academic research supported by the Research Councils, DECC (Department of Energy & Climate Change) and other funders, to maximise their value for supporting future CCS delivery.”
Today’s announcement builds upon the £2.2million allocated in 2012 for 13 projects in the UKCCSRC’s first call. The 14 projects in the second call will involve 9 different UK universities in the delivery of the research.
The projects are as follows:
CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
- Measurement of water solubility limits of CO2 mixtures to underpin the safe pipeline transportation of CO2 - University of Nottingham
- Quantifying Residual and Dissolution Trapping at the CO2CRC Otway Project Injection Site - University of Edinburgh
- Performance of Flow Meters with Dense Phase CO2 and CCS Recovery Streams - Mercedes Maroto-Valer
- Shelter and Escape in the Event of a Release of CO2 from CCS Infrastructure (S-CAPE) - Newcastle University
- CO2 Flow Metering through Multi-Modal Sensing and Statistical Data Fusion - University of Kent
CAPTURE
- UK demonstration of Enhanced Calcium looping, and first Global Demonstration of Advanced Doping Techniques - Cranfield University
- Novel Materials and Reforming Processing Route for the Production of Ready-Separated CO2/N2/H2 from Natural Gas Feedstocks - University of Leeds
- Advanced Sorbents for CCS via Controlled Sintering - Imperial College London
- Process-performance indexed design of task-specific ionic liquids for post-combustion CO2 capture £290,000 - Imperial College London
- Towards more flexible power generation with CCS - University of Edinburgh
- Investigating the radiative heat flux in small and large scale oxy-coal furnaces for CFD model development and system scale up - University of Leeds
- Novel reductive rejuvenation approaches for degraded amine solutions from PCC in power plants - University of Nottingham
STORAGE
- Multiscale characterization of CO2 storage in the United Kingdom - Imperial College London
- The Development and Demonstration of Best Practice Guidelines for the Safe Start-up Injection of CO2 into Depleted Gas Fields - University College London
