257 projects

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Demonstration of Gas Switching Technology for Accelerated Scale-up of Pressurized Chemical Looping Applications

Gas switching technology offers a promising alternative to chemical looping applications for highly efficient power or hydrogen production with integrated CO2 capture. With respect to the demonstration activities, a 35 wt% active content oxygen carrier, tested under Gas Switching Water Splitting...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

ECO-BASE: Establishing CO2 enhanced Oil recovery Business Advantages in South Eastern Europe

CO2 storage is essential in keeping global warming below the 2 degrees C target set by COP22. Storage in combination with commercial utilization (called CCUS - Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage) is a potential avenue to make CO2 storage into a business opportunity. Enhanced Oil Recovery by ...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Rogaland

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Three Dimensional Printed Capture Materials for Productivity Step-Change

CO2 capture and storage (CCS) is one of several technologies that can significantly reduce the global CO2 emissions. In order to make the CCS process more cost effective, new innovative technologies have to be developed. The goal of the 3D-CAPS project is to increase the productivity with an orde...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Efficient models for Microbially Induced CAlcite Precipitation as a seal for CO2 storage

Storage of CO2 in North Sea formations can make a significant contribution to mitigate climate change if several gigatonnes per year are stored. These high injection rates will be linked to large pressure buildup, especially near injection wells, leading to a concern for leakages. A promising met...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Vestland

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Low Temperature Post Combustion CO2 Capture Technology Using Solid Sorbents

An accelerated generation of CO2, initiated by the industrial revolution, has amplified the greenhouse effect on the planet, distorting the equilibrium to which the existing species are adapted. Due to continuous increase of energy demand, fossil fuel power plants, as the main CO2 source, will re...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Pressure control and conformance management for safe and efficient CO2 storage - Accelerating CCS Technologies

The main storage-related challenges for accelerated deployment of CCS are capacity, confidence and cost. Pre-ACT was an industry-driven research project focusing on these challenges by improving strategies for monitoring and management of pore pressure. Pre-ACT developed pressure-driven methods ...

Awarded: NOK 23.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Novel molten/solid composite oxygen transport membranes for CO2 capture

MOC-OTM focuses on the development of novel composite oxygen separation membranes used at intermediate temperatures. These novel membranes will benefit the implementation of CCS-related technologies such as oxy-fuel combustion by reducing the energy penalty and improving membrane stability due to...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Technical innovations for upscaling and commercialization of the Sorption-Enhanced Reforming technology

Hydrogen - the energy carrier for the future Today, hydrogen is mainly produced at large scale by Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) of natural gas and the integration of CO2 capture is necessary if emissions are to be avoided. The development of technologies with the potential to significantly reduc...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Akershus

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Enabling technology for the Development of moving bed Temperature swing adsorption process for post combustion CO2 capture

In the project, we have further developed a capture process (MBTSA) where a powder with a high surface area is used that selectively binds CO2 stronger than the other components in the gas that you want to clean. In the process, the powder, after capturing CO2 in a column, will flow on to another...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Induced-seismicity geomechanics for controlled CO2 storage in the North Sea

In 2017-2020, five world-leading research organizations from Europe and Australia executed the research project "Induced-seismicity Geomechanics for Controlled CO2 Storage in the North Sea" (IGCCS) to quantitatively relate induced-seismicity to geomechanical response, and to demonstrate how micro...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Nanoparticles to Stabilize CO2-foam for Efficient CCUS in Challenging Reservoirs

This laboratory-based research project at the University of Bergen (UiB) led by Department of Physics and Technology has focused on the implementation of nanoparticles with CO2 foam for enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon sequestration during CCUS. Our primary objective was to ?Utilize na...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Vestland

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Stress Path and Hysteresis effects on Integrity of CO2 Storage Site

The aim of the SPHINCSS project was to further investigate the risk picture associated with large-scale CO2 storage, especially about plans offshore Norway. The focus has been on geomechanical impacts on the ability of a selected storage reservoir to keep CO2 safe in the rock formation. Geomechan...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Improved performance of CO2 EOR and underground storage by mobility control of CO2

Underground storage is a large-scale solution for reducing anthropogenic emissions of CO2.The storage capacity in the North Sea formations is large and the possibility for establishing a large-scale infrastructure for CO2 storage have been evaluated. The realisation of a CO2 infrastructure will m...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Studying moving fluid interfaces during cementing of CCS wells

Wells have in numerous scientific publications been pointed out as the "weak links" of safe and cost-efficient CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS). They are man-made intrusions into the storage reservoir, and their sealing abilities depend on construction materials like steel and cement. The latter is ...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Optimized CO2 storage in sloping aquifers

GOAL: The CO2-Upslope project was investigating the potential for storing CO2 in geological reservoirs on the Norwegian continental shelf and ways to enhance immobilization and reduce risk. Aquifers are porous and water-filled underground layers (e.g. sandstone). These reservoirs hold potential ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Understanding of CO2 dissolution in oil by convection-driven mixing and wettability alteration (UNCOVER)

It is well-known that the CO2 dissolved into water will increase the water density, thereby introduce convective flow which again accelerate the CO2 mixing at the CO2-water interface. This process will contribute to CO2 storage by accelerated CO2 dissolution. The project "Understanding of CO2 dis...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Rogaland

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Fundamentals of Pressurized Oxy-fuel Combustion for Natural Gas Semi-Closed Combined Cycles

To mitigate climate change and maintain an ambitious CO2 reduction target in a fossil fuel dominated society, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) must be implemented. Several technologies have been developed to capture CO2 from the exhaust of combustion processes. The oxy-fuel combustion method is b...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORREGION-Forskningsbasert innovasjon i regionene

Innovasjonsregion Telemark 2017-2019

Innovation Region Telemark will help companies develop methodologies, add skills that improve the innovation processes and anchor the use of research instruments and funding tools strategically in the companies. Innovation Region Telemark offers proactive advisors that, through various means, see...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Telemark

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Rational catalyst design for transforming CO2 into industrially attractive products: Formic acid, polycarbonates and polyurethanes.

The dramatic impact of massive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on climate change prompts the development of new energy sources and recycling strategies. This project has focused on the latter approach by exploring the use of this greenhouse gas in the production of chemical feedstocks and material...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Innovative materials for CO2 Capture by Combined Calcium-Copper Cycles

The goal of this project is to investigate innovative materials in the Calcium-Copper looping process combining both copper and calcium phases in the same particle. The objective is to favor heat transfer from the exothermic CuO reduction to the endothermic CaCO3 calcination reaction, reducing th...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Norwegian CCS Research Centre - Industry-driven innovation for fast-track CCS deployment

Carbon capture, transport and storage (CCS) describes the process of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from emission sources such as power plants or industrial facilities, transporting the captured CO2 by ships, trucks or pipelines to an offshore location and injecting the CO2 into deep undergro...

Awarded: NOK 184.4 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

CO2 Capture and Retention by Smectite Clays

Platelet structures made up of layered silicates (clays) are traditional and abundant materials with numerous applications, e.g. in pottery, as waste barriers or as inexpensive filler materials. The so-called smectite clays consist of ca. 1 nanometer thick and charged sheets (negative surface cha...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Akershus

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Fundamentals of CO2-Hydrocarbon Interactions for CO2 storage with EOR/EGR in offshore reservoirs: modeling, numerical methods and upscaling

Storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in geological formations is a means to reduce atmospheric emissions of this greenhouse gas. CO2 storage combined with enhanced oil recovery (EOR) or enhanced gas recovery (EGR) is perceived as the most cost-effective method of disposing captured CO2 emissions. It h...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Vestland

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

New polymeric membranes for CO2 capture

Goal of the Project: The primary objective of the POLYMEM project is to reduce the costs, energy consumption and environmental impact of CO2 capture compared with existing technologies by developing and implementing the "next generation" polymeric membranes. Technical content: The project prom...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Environmental impacts of leakage from sub-seabed CO2 storage

RESULTS Mobilization of Metals: Our results indicate that mobilization of metals from sediment is definitely a function of sediment types, its organic contents, and especially geological characters (minerals composition). As expected the lowest pH applied during the experiments (pH 6.3) wa...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Superlyophobic surfaces for efficient separation and droplet condensation of CO2

The realisation of full-scale implementation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the near future is of high importance in order to limit global warming. To realise large scale CCS, we need innovative solutions that can give substantial cost reductions for CO2 capture, transport and storage. Th...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

A pressurized Internally Circulating Reactor (ICR) for cost-effective power production with integrated CO2 capture

The main outcome of the ICR project is the lab-scale demonstration of a new internally circulating reactor (ICR) concept which aims to simplify the design and scale-up of chemical looping technologies. Chemical looping has great potential for clean and highly efficient energy conversion, but is f...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Distributed seismic monitoring for geological carbon sequestration

DEMODAS seeks to develop DAS as a standalone technology or in combination with other technologies to serve as an Early Warning System for identifying risks during geological CO2 injection and storage. The project has developed an experimental prototype of a standalone DAS unit that has shown the...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Vestland

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Bayesian monitoring design.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the concept of capturing CO2 from large point sources and storing t in geological formations. The purpose is to reduce the greenhouse gas forcing and ocean acidification caused by the post-industrial increased anthropogenic emissions of CO2. To be an effective ...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Vestland

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Polymer resins for remediation of leakages in CO2 wells

Global CO2 emissions are a main cause of the climate changes and climate challenges globally. A large portion of these emissions can be eliminated through CO2 capture and storage. One common solution for storage is to re-use existing oil/gas wells or drill new ones into known reservoirs. CO2 will...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Rogaland