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Very succesfull EU-China Workshop Innovative CCS Technologies: 80 participants from EU, China and Australia, 34 speakers in 7 sessions

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The iCap project

iCap is an R&D  project whose objective  is to develop new CO₂ capture technologies that individually and combined will enable highly efficient and cost effective production of electrical power from fossil fuels with near zero emissions. The target is to reduce the CO₂ capture energy penalty to 4-5% points, about half of the penalty today, and to reduce the associated CO₂ avoidance cost to 15€/tonne CO₂. iCap focuses on post combustion technologies that can be used both for retrofit and for green field plants .  The iCap project will:

• Develop solvents forming CO₂ hydrates or two liquid phases enabling drastically increased liquid phase CO₂ capacity, radically decreasing solvent circulation rates, introducing a new regime in desorption energy requirement, and allowing CO₂ desorption at elevated pressures.
• Develop combined SO₂ and CO₂ capture systems increasing dramatically the potential for large scale deployment of CCS in BRIC countries and for retrofit in Europe.
• Develop high permeability/ high selectivity low temperature polymer membranes, by designing ultra thin composite membranes from a polymeric matrix containing ceramic nano particles.
• Develop mixed proton-electron conducting dense ceramic-based H₂ membranes offering the combined advantages of theoretically infinite selectivity, high mechanical strength and good stability.
• Develop and evaluate novel coal and gas-based power cycles that allows post-combustion CO2 captures at elevated pressures, thus reducing the separation costs radically.
• Integrate the improved separation technologies in brownfield and greenfield power plants, and in novel power cycles in order to meet the performance and cost targets of the project.

iCap is a 4 years projects consisting of a consortium of 15 partnters, including European R&D organisations, an industrial group, and partners from Australia and China. The project is supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Program Contract No: 241393 and is coordinated by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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