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National Project ALIGN-CCUS

 

 

The ALIGN-CCUS (ALIGN) project aims to accelerate the transition of current industry and power sectors into a future of continued economic activity and low-carbon emissions, in which carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) plays an essential role. ALIGN addresses specific issues across the CCUS chain for industrial regions in ERA-NET ACT countries, enabling large scale, cost effective implementation of CCUS by 2025.

Project manager: Dr. Sorin ANGHEL

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Objectives

  • Capture: Enable near-termdeployment of CO2 capture by improving performance and reducing costs.
  • Transport: Optimising large-scale CO2 transport.
  • Storage: Reduce uncertainty in the provision of large-scale storage networks.
  • Utilisation: Establish the contribution of CCUS as an element for large-scale energy storage and conversion.
  • Social acceptance: Implementing CCUS in society.

 

ALIGN’s objectives are designed to enable the acceleration of CCUS in specific industrial regions in ERA- NET ACT countries: Teesside and Grangemouth (UK), Rotterdam (NL), North Rhine-Westphalia (DE), Grenland (NO) and Oltenia (RO). ALIGN will combine the results from each of these objectives to deliver actionable blueprints in each region, in which CCUS enables low-emission industries, through geological storage or through utilization of CO2. The project contributes to advancing the TRL levels of CCUS technologies through long-term CO2 capture testing campaigns at leading EU research facilities, and the design, construction, operation and testing a first-of-a-kind full-chain CO2 capture and conversion project in an industrial environment. A unique CO2 storage readiness assessment protocol shall be established to accelerate the definition of CO2 storage capacity, and potential storage locations in the North Sea will be better characterized. ALIGN also contributes to societal acceptance issues of CCUS. For the first time, leading social scientists will conduct quantitative research to understand how public perception of CCUS varies depending upon the source of CO2. The scientific outcomes of ALIGN will contribute directly to the acceleration of CCUS deployment in EU industrial regions, overcoming cluster specific technical challenges. The participants of ALIGN represent the ERA-NET ACT countries of the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Romania and the United Kingdom. The ALIGN consortium is characterised by considerable involvement of industrial companies, which are not only guiding the research, but have committed to directly investing in the R&D and demonstration activities in the project, boosting the credibility of the project’s potential for accelerating and maturing CCUS technologies, as the end-users themselves are driving the project forward.

 

Expected results

  • Complete characterization of aerosol-based emission and demonstration of countermeasures at TRL 6/7
  • Ensuring solvent consumption below 0.3kg amine/ton capture at TRL 6
  • Guidelines for reliable and cost-efficient operation at varying feed conditions and CO2 product requirements
  • Derive cost estimates and benchmarks for CO2 shipping and offshore unloading with reduced uncertainty
  • Quantification of the impacts of batch-wise injection on the integrity of the storage system
  • CO2 specifications expected from pilot-scale post combustion capture systems are evaluated in dense- phase CO2 corrosion lab
  • A real-options multi-period CCS network optimization model including capture from power and industry, energy storage and conversion is developed

 

  • Provide a classification framework for storage readiness levels benchmarked against existing storage sites
  • A portfolio of selected storage sites in the UK, Netherlands and Norway to provide certainty on storage for ALIGN clusters
  • An asset register of existing North Sea oil and gas infrastructure and assessments of their suitability for re-use for CCUS projects
  • Demonstration of the full CCS/CCU chain
  • Understand the additional multi-sector benefits of establishing a CCUS chain producing low-emission transportation fuels
  • Techno-economic optimization of the CCU demonstrator technology
  • Quantify the environmental performance of a full CCUS chain using data derived from actual operation

 

  • Provide a set of actionable development plans for targeted CCUS activities in 6 key industrial clusters across the EU
  • Develop commercial models for embryonic CO2 cluster infrastructure using results from pilot-testing and optimization modelling completed in ALIGN
  • Understanding of public and stakeholder perception concerning CCUS projects in industrial applications, including CO2 utilization
  • Evidence-based insight in best practices regarding the use of compensation schemes for CCUS projects
  • Development and testing of new communication materials for CCUS