📋 Tender Overview
Demonstrating Energy Intensive Industry-Integrated Solutions To Produce Liquid Renewable Energy Carriers From Captured Carbon Emissions
Liquid Energy Carriers From Co2 Captured From Energy Intensive Industriesenergy Intensive Industries (Eii) Face The Great Challenge Of Remaining Competitive While Reducing Their Carbon Emissions, In Line With Ambitious Eu Climate Policies. Carbon Capture And Utilisation (Ccu) Technologies Powered By Renewable Energy (Re) Will Play A Key Role In Preventing Further Carbon Release Into The Atmosphere While Obtaining Valuable Products From It. The Eu-Funded Captus Project Aims To Make Eii-Derived Co2 An Exploitable Resource Through The Industrial Demonstration Of Three Promising Ccu Technologies, Where The Co2 Captured From Cement, Steel, And Chemical Plants Will Be Valorised Into Different Re Carriers. The Captus Processes Involve The Integration Of Surplus Re, Contributing To A More Efficient And Sustainable Transition And Including Detailed Analyses On Safety, Environmental, Societal, And Business Aspects.
Funded Under
Climate, Energy And Mobility
Total Cost
€ 11 501 125,00
Eu Contribution
€ 9 999 706,39
Coordinated By
Fundacion Circe Centro De Investigacion De Recursos Y Consumos Energeticos
Spain
Objective
GHG emissions reduction policies to mitigate climate change heavily impact on energy intensive industries, leading to loss of employment and competitiveness. In addition, variable renewable generation faces high risks from electricity curtailment if renewable surplus is not used. Carbon capture and utilisation technologies that make use of industrial flue gas and renewable surplus will play a key role in the clean energy transition of industry. Various technologies exist but most are still quite demanding in terms of materials and energy, being costly and inefficient. CAPTUS key objective is to demonstrate sustainable, cost-effective and scalable pathways to produce high-added value energy carriers by valorising industrial carbon emissions and integrating renewable electricity surplus. To this end, 3 complete value chains will be demonstrated at 3 different demo-sites: (i) Bioprocess based on a two-stage fermentation to produce triglycerides in a steel plant, (ii) Lipids-rich microalgae cultivation followed by hydrothermal liquefaction to produce bio-oils in a chemical plant, and (iii) Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to produce formic acid in a cement plant. The proposed technologies will be tested at TRL7, and the obtained energy carriers will be validated by upgrading studies. CAPTUS will also validate solutions regarding economic, environmental, societal and geo-political criteria, contributing to the development of novel business models, guidelines and strategies. CAPTUS has been structured in 8 WP, combining R&D activities, project management and demonstration activities. CAPTUS addresses this complex challenge by gathering a competitive consortium of 18 partners from 8 EU countries. Over
