Objective
The European Green Deal sets ambitious targets to GHG emission reductions for the process industry, that can only partly be reached by the transition to renewable energy. Residual, hard-to-abate CO2 emissions from industrial processes such as steel and cement production will need to be captured, and wherever possible, processed and recycled into new products. The shift towards low carbon processes may disrupt existing industrial symbiosis pathways. If no alternative linkages are developed, this may lead to increasing emissions in downstream sectors. The transitions in steel and energy production lead to dwindling supplies of low carbon resources for cement production such as blast furnace slag and coal fly ash. The core concept of Carbon4Minerals addresses the simultaneous use of CO2 from industrial flue gases with current and future waste streams to unlock a vast stock of resources for innovative low carbon binders and construction materials (80-135% lower CO2-emissions than reference). A total of 8 industrial pilots will be built and operated across the process value chain from CO2 capture to cement production and low carbon construction products. This cross-sectorial innovation has the potential to reduce European CO2 emissions by 46 Mt/y, equal to 10% of the EU process industry emissions, while safeguarding the competitiveness of the European industry. A consortium of technology providers, producers and research partners will develop, test and demonstrate the processes. Technical, environmental and economic feasibility will be validated by an integrated assessment, in combination with the development of a service life test package tailored to these new products. Co-learning modules are developed to support industrial implementation and market introduction.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energycoal
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiological behavioural sciencesethologybiological interactions
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinator
2400 Mol
Belgium
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Participants (12)
69120 Heidelberg
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1000 Brussel
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1880 Kapelle-op-den-bos
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3740 Bilzen
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52062 Aachen
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638 00 Brno
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
7491 Trondheim
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6883JP Velp
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7034 Trondheim
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1411 RZ Naarden
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
15344 Strausberg
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8092 Zuerich
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