Imagine a giant plumbing system for the planet that sucks up pollution from factories and moves it to safe underground vaults. This project is figuring out how to move that gas using trucks, ships, and pipes across different countries. It's like creating a standardized shipping network, but for carbon instead of parcels.
Companies capturing CO2 often lack a safe, cost-effective way to transport it to storage sites across borders. This creates a financial risk that makes CCS investments unattractive.
A prototype high-pressure CO2 storage tank for trucks, CO2-sniffing underwater vehicles, and wireless seabed sensors.
If you are a plant operator dealing with high carbon emissions and no local storage — this project developed emitters' clusters and multimodal transport requirements that help you move CO2 to storage sites. This can contribute to a reduction of 6.8Mt/year by 2035.
If you are a logistics provider dealing with the risk of transporting hazardous gases — this project developed carbon fibre cylinders and high-pressure storage tanks for truck-based transport. This reduces technical risks and improves the investment rationale for new routes.
If you are a storage site operator dealing with the need to monitor leaks under the sea — this project developed CO2-sniffing underwater vehicles and wireless seabed sensors. These tools ensure the safety of offshore injection and monitoring.
The project aims to improve the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of CO2 infrastructure investment by 6% by de-risking core technologies.
The project is demonstrating key technologies and developing three new routes in Central-East Europe to scale up to 36Mt/year by 2050.
Based on available project data, the project is developing 8 innovations for monitoring and interoperability, but specific licensing terms are not mentioned.
The project is creating a common framework for policy, transport safety, and monitoring, reporting, and validation (MRV) across 13 countries.
The project targets a reduction of 6.8Mt/year by 2035 and 36Mt/year by 2050.
The project is heavily industry-driven, with 24 industrial partners representing 56% of the 43-member consortium. The presence of 11 SMEs and a wide geographical spread across 13 countries suggests a strong focus on commercial scalability and cross-border logistics rather than pure academic research.
Contact SINTEF ENERGI AS in Norway for technical specifications on CO2 transport prototypes.
Contact SciTransfer to identify the specific 8 MRV innovations available for licensing.
