Accelerating CCS Technologies (ACT-3) programme: final reports
The final reports for UK project work on the third call of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies (ACT3) programme.
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The Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies (ACT) third call (ACT3) was a European Research Area Network (ERA-NET) Cofund established to support collaborative projects to accelerate the deployment of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). A portfolio of projects was created through international collaboration across 14 countries. Consortia of UK organisations were awarded a total of £5 million in grant funding to participate in ten of these international projects.
The UK contributed to 11 projects, with the first 5 reports for the following projects published here. The remaining reports will be published on this page at a later date.
CEMENTEGRITY: set out to develop cementing compositions and improve technologies for delivering wellbore cement seals which retain high integrity over the long durations relevant for carbon capture and storage, taking into account realistic in-situ conditions and carbon dioxide stream compositions.
CoCaCo2La: this project aimed to develop a flexible, tunable, economically viable electrolyser to convert carbon dioxide into high-value chemical products such as ethylene, using nano-structured copper catalyst.
EVERLoNG: this project aimed to accelerate the implementation of Ship-Based Carbon Capture (SBCC) technology through demonstration on board LNG-fuelled ships operated by project partners.
CooCE: aimed to accelerate the use of carbon dioxide capture and utilization through closing carbon loops in a circular economy approach. The project targeted the development and demonstration of novel biotechnological platform in which a carbon dioxide streams is converted into biofuels for flexible on-site hybrid energy storage and high market value platform chemicals for the synthesis of biopolymers.
SHARP: this project aimed to increase the accuracy for subsurface carbon dioxide storage containment risk management through improvement and integration of models for subsurface stress, rock mechanical failure and seismicity to mature the technology for quantification of subsurface deformation and cost-efficient carbon dioxide subsurface risk management.