Project description
Lowering carbon emissions with calcium looping
Removing carbon emissions from industrial processes is a key component in mitigating climate change. The EU-funded CaLby2030 project will tackle this by creating three pilot plants, in Sweden, Germany and Spain, to test calcium looping using circulating fluidised bed technology. These pilots will investigate the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate CO2 sources: flue gases from modern and future steel-making processes as well as emissions from modern cement plants that use limestone and from waste-to-energy and biothermal power plants. The data collected will be used to create modelling tools to enable commercial scale reactors. Innovative calcium looping solutions will be developed and tested to reach over 99 % CO2 capture rates.
Objective
CaLby2030 will be the enabling tool to achieve commercial deployment from 2030 of Calcium Looping using Circulating Fluidised Bed technology, CFB-CaL. Three TRL6 pilot plants across Europe (Sweden, Germany and Spain) will be developed for testing under industrially relevant operating conditions. To maximise impact, these pilots will investigate the decarbonisation of hard to abate CO2 emission sources: flue gases from modern and future steel-making processes that rely mainly on electricity, emissions from modern cement plants that cannot escape from the use of limestone, and from Waste-to-Energy and Bio-CHP power plants that fill the gap in scalable dispatchable power and allow for negative emissions. These pilots will collectively generate a database of over 4000 hours of operation. This data will be interpreted using advanced modelling tools to enable the scale-up of the key CO2 capture reactors to fully commercial scale. Process techno-economic simulation, cluster optimisation and Life Cycle Analysis will be performed to maximise renewable energy inputs and materials circularities. All this information will form the basis for undertaking FEED studies for the demonstration plants in at least four EU locations. Innovative CFB-CaL solutions will be developed and tested to reach >99% CO2 capture rates, reaching for some process schemes costs as low as 30 €/tCO2 avoided and energy intensities with Specific Primary Energy Consumption per CO2 Avoided below 0.8 MJ/kgCO2 when O2 from electrolysers is readily available as an industrial commodity. Societal scientists and environmental economists will assess the social acceptability and preferences for “zero” or “negative emissions” CaL demonstration projects with novel methodologies that will elucidate and help to overcome current societal barriers for the implementation of CCUS. The consortium includes the world-leading CFB process technology developer, key end user industries and leading academics including CaL pioneers.
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28006 Madrid
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02131 Espoo
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60228 NORRKOPING
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70174 Stuttgart
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971 25 Lulea
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53850 Lappeenranta
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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29121 Piacenza
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20133 Milano
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28033 MADRID
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42123 Reggio Emilia
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29122 Piacenza
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40476 Dusseldorf
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40476 Dusseldorf
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06638 Karsdorf
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400084 Cluj Napoca
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00187 Roma
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6525 XZ Nijmegen
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811 81 Sandviken
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33005 Oviedo
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08875 Castellbisbal
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WC1E 6BT London
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