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CO₂-capture and storage

As far back as 1986, SINTEF launched the idea of fossil-fuelled gas power plants with integrated CCS facilities on the Norwegian continental shelf.

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The rise in atmospheric CO₂ levels is an important cause of climate change. As a result of its goal-oriented efforts over many years, SINTEF now enjoys the status of being one of the world’s leading research centres in CO₂ scrubbing technology for gas- and coal-fired power stations.

Scientists at SINTEF Energy Research, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry and SINTEF Petroleum Research can boast of expertise throughout the entire value chain related to carbon dioxide capture, transport and storage in geological formations.

These research groups have been awarded imporetant competence-building projects by the Research Council of Norway, Gassnova and industry.

SINTEF is also one of the most important research centres in the field of CO₂ capture and storage in the EU’s 6th and 7th Framework Programmes, via its management of and participation in most of the EU’s projects in this area.

Published September 29, 2011

Contact:

Nils Anders Røkke

Erik Gøsta Bruno Lindeberg

Aslak Einbu

Mona Jacobsen Mølnvik

The Gas Technology Centre, NTNU-SINTEF

Norway's Centres for Environment friendly Energy Research (CEERs)
BIGCCS - International CCS Research Centre

Project: ECCO – European value Chain for CO₂
Expertice:

CO₂ - Capture to Storage (578 Kb)

SINTEF's Carbon capture and storage (CCS) research

SINTEF plays an internationally leading role in research on the capture, transport and storage of CO₂ (CCS). We cooperate closely with NTNU and with other national and international centres of research on this topic.
SINTEF is involved in research on most current CCS technologies, including pre- and post-combustion scrubbing and oxyfuel processes. We do research for major industrial concerns at national and international level.

One of our research projects on CO₂ scrubbing is SOLVit, which receives most of its financial support from GASSNOVA and the Research Council of Norway, and is led by Aker Clean Carbon and HAS partners from the POWER industry. SINTEF also leads the International CCS Research Centre (BIGCCS), which was established in 2009 as a Centre of Excellence in CCS by the Research Council of Norway; the Centre has 10 industrial partners.

We also lead the CO2Fieldlab storage project, which is financed by the Norwegian, French and British authorities and by leading partners in this field. SINTEF is a major player in CCS research in the EU's Framework research programme.