Periodic Reporting for period 2 - ENCASE (A European Network of Research Infrastructures for CO2 Transport and Injection)
Berichtszeitraum: 2024-01-01 bis 2024-12-31
The EU has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 and becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Deployment of CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) from different industrial sectors across Europe is a powerful fast track approach to abate CO2 emissions. CO2 transport and injection are the essential links between capture sites and storage reservoirs.
Responding to this challenge, the goal of ENCASE is to contribute to a safer, more cost-effective, and environmentally friendly CO2 transport and well injection. ENCASE aims to continuously improve 7 world-leading CCS-related research infrastructures (RIs) in the consortium with state-of-the-art scientific instruments, tools and methods to be the backbone for research and development of CCS technologies. Co-development of technologies will enhance the capability of RIs, increase RI personnel’s competence and enable these RIs to better address and close key knowledge gaps.
ENCASE will safeguard and increase the competitiveness of these European RIs through strong collaboration with the CCS infrastructure operators, service companies, academia, and SMEs. The RIs will be available for the industry/SMEs for prototyping their new equipment/technology, e.g. pumping concepts, metering technologies, and simulator tools for monitoring, controlling and predicting the CO2 streams with impurities.
The high-quality data produced in ENCASE will lift the knowledge level of industry and academia, which will contribute to the development of innovative companies and the education of future workforce for the CCS industry. Social innovation labs and co-creation initiatives will be developed by involving different stakeholders to address specific societal needs and better integrate the RIs in the local communities.
Our success will improve the design and operation of CCS infrastructures and meet the EU climate goals. Thus, the enhanced research capacity build by ENCASE will benefit scientific community, industry, policy-makers, environment and society.
Responding to this challenge, the goal of ENCASE is to contribute to a safer, more cost-effective, and environmentally friendly CO2 transport and well injection. ENCASE aims to continuously improve 7 world-leading CCS-related research infrastructures (RIs) in the consortium with state-of-the-art scientific instruments, tools and methods to be the backbone for research and development of CCS technologies. Co-development of technologies will enhance the capability of RIs, increase RI personnel’s competence and enable these RIs to better address and close key knowledge gaps.
ENCASE will safeguard and increase the competitiveness of these European RIs through strong collaboration with the CCS infrastructure operators, service companies, academia, and SMEs. The RIs will be available for the industry/SMEs for prototyping their new equipment/technology, e.g. pumping concepts, metering technologies, and simulator tools for monitoring, controlling and predicting the CO2 streams with impurities.
The high-quality data produced in ENCASE will lift the knowledge level of industry and academia, which will contribute to the development of innovative companies and the education of future workforce for the CCS industry. Social innovation labs and co-creation initiatives will be developed by involving different stakeholders to address specific societal needs and better integrate the RIs in the local communities.
Our success will improve the design and operation of CCS infrastructures and meet the EU climate goals. Thus, the enhanced research capacity build by ENCASE will benefit scientific community, industry, policy-makers, environment and society.
Seven Research Infrastructure (RI) facilities have been under upgrading to cover specific CCS challenges and support wider applications. Continuous communication has been carried out between RIs, relevant stakeholders and scientific community to identify the technical needs for RIs and knowledge gaps in CO2 transportation. Frequent exchanges of knowledge have been taken between the RIs and with partners in the Consortium. Workforces have been involved in various activities to build up their competence and capacity for CCS applications. Test campaigns, both experimental and modelling, have been performed to investigate the impact of impurities in CO2 streams and develop the prototype of flow meter. A data management system was established for collecting, managing and sharing data generated from RIs and partners in the Consortium. An integrated platform, the ENCASE website, was released for sharing the scientific data and modelling/simulation methods to support industrial and scientific communities. Digitalization of RIs has been started, aiming to develop training scenes for RI staffs, future workforces and external users.
ENCASE will safeguard and increase the competitiveness of these European RIs through strong collaboration with the CCS infrastructure operators, service companies, academia, and SMEs. The RIs will be available for the industry/SMEs for prototyping their new equipment/technology, e.g. pumping concepts, metering technologies, and simulator tools for monitoring, controlling and predicting the CO2 streams with impurities.
The project, along its first year of implementation, has already produced high-quality data produced to will lift the knowledge level of industry and academia, contributing to the development of innovative companies and the education of future high-skilled workforce for the CCS industry. One of the key items of ENCASE, beyond the scientific and technical outcomes are the social innovation labs and co-creation initiatives. This set of activities is coordinated by an expert group on the matter that belongs to the Open University. The group has started preparing the trainings needed for the Research Infrastructures. Throughout the development of the Social Innovation Labs, our RIs have the ambition to become nodes of knowledge and ecosystems to nurture the mutual understanding between stakeholders and academia. This activity supports the overarching goal of integrating the RIs in the local communities where they are located.
The project, along its first year of implementation, has already produced high-quality data produced to will lift the knowledge level of industry and academia, contributing to the development of innovative companies and the education of future high-skilled workforce for the CCS industry. One of the key items of ENCASE, beyond the scientific and technical outcomes are the social innovation labs and co-creation initiatives. This set of activities is coordinated by an expert group on the matter that belongs to the Open University. The group has started preparing the trainings needed for the Research Infrastructures. Throughout the development of the Social Innovation Labs, our RIs have the ambition to become nodes of knowledge and ecosystems to nurture the mutual understanding between stakeholders and academia. This activity supports the overarching goal of integrating the RIs in the local communities where they are located.