C⁴U Advanced Carbon Capture for Steel Industries Integrated in CCUS Clusters

Begin of project: April 1, 2020

End of project: March 31, 2024

Status of project: July 1, 2020

C4U - cluster system modelling Source: S. Martynov, UCL

The iron and steel industry has worldwide the highest energy consumption in the manufacturing sector. In 2018, 1.8 Gt were emitted, contributing to about 8 % of the worldwide anthropogenic CO₂ emissions. The new C⁴U Project faces this challenge with a comprehensive techno-economic programme funded by the European Union. This project particularly includes development and realisation of practical tests and promising carbon capture processes in order to identify socially accepted, economically and energy efficient solutions.

Embedded in the C⁴U project is the development of state-of-the-art computational methods. These realistic investigations will be based on the optimised C⁴U carbon capture technologies in the North Sea Port CCUS Industrial Cluster (Belgium). More information on the C⁴U project can be found in this video. BGR will perform coupled thermo-hydro-chemical computational simulations to study the development of CO₂ streams in depleted natural gas fields in the North Sea. The numerical simulations enhance the understanding of the site-specific processes, relevant to the C⁴U Project. They will be performed in close cooperation with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, USA) and include

• pressure development in the subsurface in time and space,
• mineralogical changes in the vicinity of the CO₂ injection well,
• chemical reactions in the transition zone between Reservoir rocks and barrier rocks,
• influence of CO₂ stream, i.e. its composition and flow rate on the dynamical processes,
• significance of uncertainties and heterogeneities for the results.

The first C⁴U- Workshop on Gender Dimension will take place on 29.9. and 1.10.2021. More detailed information on this virtual event “Women in CCUS – Inspire and be inspired“ can be found here.

Partner:

19 participants from Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom; two "Third Parties" from Canada and Unites States

Promotion / document number:

EU Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020, No. 884418 — C4U — H2020-LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020 / H2020-LC-SC3-2019-NZE-RES-CC