Descripción del proyecto
Una forma más barata y eficiente de capturar el carbono
El mayor reto para la ampliación de la captura de carbono es su elevado coste, que hace insostenibles las tecnologías pertinentes. En este contexto, en el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos CapCO2 se desarrollará un disolvente para la captura de CO2, denominado CDRMax, con un contenido reducido de agua y mayor estabilidad. Además, un absorbedor de CO2 y un extractor de disolventes reducirán considerablemente el tamaño unitario. La tecnología CapCO2 es capaz de reducir drásticamente el coste de la captura de carbono hasta 20 EUR por tonelada, una gran diferencia en comparación con las tecnologías convencionales. Esta novedosa tecnología hará más sostenible la instalación de unidades de eliminación de CO2 en el sector industrial.
Objetivo
Today, around 35 Gtons/year of carbon dioxide are emitted worldwide from industrial plants in a large number of sectors such as coal-fired power stations, chemical refineries, waste-to-energy plants, cement production, iron plants, steel plants and off-shore platforms. Although the efforts of industry and public entities to support the development of efficient solutions able to capture CO2 and avoid its emission to the atmosphere, thus mitigating the greenhouse effect, currently the Carbon Capture technologies cost is unsustainable: the first Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects cost > 70 € per tonne of carbon dioxide captured, a value higher than the European carbon tax (< 15 €/tons, expected to reach 45 €/tons in 2021), making the CCS economically inconvenient.
Carbon Clean Solutions Ltd. has developed a CO2 capture process, called CapCO2 and characterized by two disruptive innovations: 1) the intensified CO2 capture solvent, called CDRMax, with a reduced water content and a higher stability in respect to the industry benchmark solvent MEA; 2) the CO2 absorber and solvent stripper configuration using Rotary Packed Bed (RPB) technology, which reduces the units size of a factor > 9. CapCO2 solution is able to drastically reduce the carbon capture cost up to 20 €/tons (60-78% lower than conventional solutions), making sustainable the installation of CO2 removal units in industrial sector. CCSL solvents are already active market products (applied in 25 anaerobic digestion plants in Germany for biogas upgrading) while the RPB technology has been validated by a first prototype. Now, CCSL aims to develop an integrated Mobile Intensified Compact CO2 (CO2 MIC) capture unit, with a capacity of 10 tons CO2 captured per day: the CapCO2 mobile unit will allow the validation of CapCO2 technology in different operating fields, being helpful for understanding and establishing detailed techno-economic evaluations at various industrial flue gas sources.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactors
- social sciencessociologygovernancetaxation
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringcarbon capture engineering
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
RG1 7SR Reading Berkshire
Reino Unido
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.