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CO2 capture and storage


CO2 capture and storage

 

 

According to scenarios posited by the International Energy Agency, the development of renewable energy alone will not be fast enough to attain greenhouse gas reduction goals. This means the pace of emissions reductions has to be increased by implementing CO2 capture, transport and storage in electricity production and in industry. The R&I Department is establishing a position in pre-combustion and post-combustion capture, and cryogenic capture, transport and storage.

 

The ROAD Project (Rotterdam Capture Storage and Demonstration Project), a major CO2 capture and storage demonstration project in Rotterdam

GDF SUEZ and E.ON are working together to develop ROAD, a major industrial demonstration project in the Netherlands, one of the most ambitious international projects in terms of CO2 capture, transport and storage, which is co-financed by the European Union and the Dutch government.

 

The ROAD project includes implementing a CO2 capture demonstrator with a size equivalent to 250 mWe (corresponding to approximately 1.1 mt CO2/year), transporting the CO2 captured over 25 km (on and offshore) and storing it in a depleted offshore gas field.

 

The aim of the project is to get this chain fully up and running by 2015.

 

Fighting climate change with the "France Nord" CO2 transport and storage project

Working with several French and European manufacturers and research organizations, in 2010 GDF SUEZ launched the "France Nord" CO2 transport and storage project to help to limit greenhouse gas emissions. With this project, we will be able to study the possibility of installing a pilot CO2. transport and storage infrastructure in the sedimentary basin located in the north central region of metropolitan France. Thorough technical studies are now being conducted to select an appropriate geological site for storing the CO2 in deep salt aquifers. The purpose of these studies is also to define the most suitable CO2 transport infrastructures for connecting the manufacturing plants to the storage site.

 

With a total price tag of 54 million euros, 40 percent of the "France Nord" project is financed by ADEME, through the research demonstration fund, and 60 percent is funded by the partners in the project: six manufacturing companies (Air Liquide, EDF, GDF SUEZ, Lafarge, Total and Vallourec), three French research organizations (BRGM, the IFP and INERIS) and two German research organizations (EIFER in Karlsruhe and the GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam).

 

 

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