RWE Innovation Centre – Project: SCOPE
RWE Innovation Centre – Project: SCOPE

Creating environmentally friendly and cost-effective processes for capturing CO2

Project: SCOPE

SCOPE (Sustainable OPEration of post-combustion Capture plants) aims to create environmentally friendly and cost-effective processes for carbon capture. In this project, more than 20 partners from Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Norway, India and the US seek to overcome existing barriers to the accelerated implementation of CCUS (Carbon Capture Usage and Storage) by making available recommendations on methods of reducing emissions based on representative pilot facility testing, simulations, cost-benefit analyses and case studies for the design and operation of amine scrubs for carbon capture and the approval process.

During the last ten years, the refinement of carbon scrubbing technology has been focused mainly on its application for power stations and reducing both power requirements and scrubbing agent consumption. With regard to the broad application for industrial processes (production of cement, glass, steel, and biomass and waste combustion) that’s needed if climate protection targets are to be achieved, it’s clear from designing and/or putting the first large-scale plants into operation that it would be useful to have more data on the technical and industrial methods of reducing emissions that need to be applied, and on the flows of waste material from carbon scrubbing processes. Building on the results of the ALIGN-CCUS project, SCOPE aims to close gaps in existing scientific, technical, environmental and societal knowledge regarding emissions from carbon scrubbing, in addition to effectively minimising such emissions and their impacts on the environment.

Several extensive test campaigns are taking place at the pilot CO2 scrubbing facility in collaboration with partner entities at the Niederaussem Innovation Centre.


Funding

The German partners in the SCOPE project receive funding from the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), (subsidy file number 03EE5092A; as part of the ACT (Accelerating CCS Technologies) research initiative).

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