📋 Tender Overview
The main objective of the Kairos@C project is to create the first and largest cross-border carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain to capture, liquefy, ship and permanently store CO2. Located in the Port of Antwerp, Kairos@C will establish a regional hub for innovative energy and carbon value chains. Kairos@C will develop a full industrial-scale CCS project that will encompass the CO2 capture from various industrial sources on the Zandvliet industrial platform, the CO2 transport by pipeline to the liquefaction and export terminal located in the same port, the shipping towards CO2 subsea storages in the North Sea and the permanent sequestration of the CO2 in these storages. The infrastructure in the Port of Antwerp will be built in a phased approach and will be scalable. Kairos@C will enable the deployment of several pioneering technologies that together have the potential to avoid the emission into the atmosphere of 14 Mt of CO2 over its first ten years of operation. Among the project innovations are: a cryogenic CO2 capture process at industrial scale; an energy efficient CO2 liquefaction plant, with ten times the capacity of the largest CO2 liquefaction unit in operation today; and the development of a major functioning cross border shipping and storage CCS chain.
