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Negative CO2 – Enabling negative CO2 emissions in the Nordic energy system through the use of Chemical-Looping Combustion of biomass (bio-CLC)

Negative CO2 – Enabling negative CO2 emissions in the Nordic energy system through the use of Chemical-Looping Combustion of biomass (bio-CLC)

Time

1.11.2015–31.10.2019

Project coordinator

Chalmers

Project partners

  • Chalmers University of Technology
  • The Bellona Foundation
  • Sibelco Nordic AB
  • SINTEF Energy Research
  • SINTEF Materials and Chemistry
  • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
  • Funded by

  • Nordic Energy Research
  • Bio-CLC: Chemical-Looping Combustion (CLC) captures CO2 by separating it from other gases in the combustion process, which eliminates the need for costly and energy demanding CO2 separation later. Chemical-Looping Combustion of biomass (BioCLC) would allow biomass-burning operators to achieve not just neutral, but negative CO2 emissions – taking it out of the atmospheric cycle and thereby helping to combat climate change.

    The goal of the Negative CO2 project is to develop a technology that enables CO2 capture and negative CO2 emissions with the lowest possible cost and energy penalty. To reach this goal the following activities are undertaken: pilot plant operation; reserach on oxygen carrier materials; flue gas treatment technologies; ash and corrosion issues; and upscaling and implementation. In this project Åbo Akademi University focuses mainly on understanding interactions between biomass ash and bed materials and on the selection of heat transfer surface materials.