CCUS specialists from the UK CCS Research Centre and the University of 91Ö±²¥'s PACT facilities together with Bechtel (US), TNO (NL), Test Centre Mongstad (Norway) and the Universities of Edinburgh and Leeds contributed to an international workshop on post-combustion capture (PCC) retrofit. Together with application experts from China, Ireland, South Africa and Thailand, the workshop examined past open-access PCC studies and potential future practical applications from across the world.
Drawing on a range of information available from large scale projects studied and built to date globally, and the extensive personal experience of the workshop attendees, possible approaches for a range of potential future PCC retrofit projects were discussed. Detailed open-access design information that can be shared freely is a key tool in progressing CCUS and a detailed FEED study for Gassnova by Bechtel using generic 35% MEA as the solvent was recently made available, following expiry of non-disclosure agreements, to contribute to this workshop.
As global interest in CCUS grows to meet demanding CO2 emission reduction targets this type of collaborative open-technology workshop could help to build the necessary capacity in the global CCUS community to meet very challenging future targets for wide-scale deployment.