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The ConsenCUS project is investigating the use of potassium hydroxide (KOH) and potassium carbonate (K2CO3) as cost-effective and environmentally friendly solvents for carbon capture. One challenge with these solvents is their relatively slow absorption kinetics, which can increase the size… Read more > Enhancing Potassium-Based Carbon Capture: Investigating Glycine’s Role and Stability Challenges

We are officially in the final year of the project. Time has flown by, the results are slowly pouring in and so we are focusing on the final reports and opinions. Of course, we are keen to share this with… Read more > Save the date! End Conference ConsenCUS

On 28 November, ConsenCUS will attend EU CCUS project LANDMARC’s Final Policy Event ‘The Road to Net Zero: How to Pave the Way for Carbon Farming, Removal, and Capture’. We look forward to sharing our insights. Dr Luciana Miu from… Read more > ConsenCUS at LANDMARC’s Final Policy Event

ConsenCUS was present in the European Water Technology Week 2024 in Leeuwarden with about 1000 participants. An inspiring parallel session, hosted by Wetsus’ Dr. Sara Vallejo Castaño, was dedicated to sharing the details of the technology and the main findings and… Read more > Recap European Water Technology Week

In honour of the newly employed technologies at the Petrobrazi Refinery, OMV Petrom succesfully organised the Pilot Project Event to demonstrate the installation to high level visitors.

The ConsenCUS project has reached a significant milestone by successfully capturing CO2 with a purity level exceeding 99%. The CO2 was captured from exhaust gas from the OMV Petrom refinery near Ploiesti, Romania. This accomplishment highlights the effectiveness of the advanced electrochemical technology employed by the project.

On April 22, EPG organised its third community engagement event on CCUS in Romania, as part of the ConsenCUS project. The event was an evening seminar on CO2 storage at the University of Petroleum and Gas in Ploiești, a municipality… Read more > Community engagement event

This week, the ConsenCUS project achieved a fantastic milestone: at the Aalborg Portland (DK) cement plant, it succeeded in capturing the first CO2 with the electrochemical CO2 capture plant realised by the project. The custom-made electrochemical ‘stacks’ being demonstrated have… Read more > Breakthrough CO2 capture in ConsenCUS project

Opening ceremony during CCUS Forum, with H.K.H. Kronprins Frederik, Ms. Simson (EU-commissioner for Energy) and Mr. Aagaard (Danish Minister for Energy, Climate and Utilities). ConsenCUS has inaugurated its innovative electrochemical CO2 capture and conversion demonstration plant in Aalborg, Denmark, at… Read more > ConsenCUS: Start of Demonstration Campaign in Aalborg, Denmark

In juli, New Energy Business school, in collaboration with ConsenCUS organized a CCUS Expedition. During the intensive 3-day expedition, top experts offered an overview of the entire Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage value chain and all currently available technologies for… Read more > CCUS Expedition to Mongstad

NOTE: This press release has been published by Aalborg Portland. In a new collaboration with a number of research institutions and companies from several parts of Europe, Aalborg Portland is commissioning its second carbon capture pilot plant. The purpose of… Read more > Aalborg Portland establishes new pilot plant for carbon capture: Can significantly reduce energy consumption and ensure better CO2 utilisation

On 19 September the webinar “Looking to future CCUS policy in the EU” took place. During the webinar Dirk Koppert, ConsenCUS projectmanager, discussed with 3 panelists the vivid status of CCUS Policy developments that are needed to facilitate the development,… Read more > Webinar: Looking to future CCUS policy in the EU

This week, the bi-annual Trondheim CCS conference, the TCCS, took place in Norway. TCCS is regarded as one of the leading CCS (carbon capture and storage)-technology conferences in the world. Over 500 participants from R&D institutes, universities and industry gather… Read more > ConsenCUS present at the TCCS- conference

This week consortium partner Energy Policy Group (EPG) released a policy paper discussing the preliminary outcomes of the EU Horizon2020-project ConsenCUS. The paper sets out a number of policy considerations regarding CCUS deployment in the EU, arising from the project’s… Read more > ConsenCUS presents its first policy considerations on CCUS 

On 25 & 26 April 2023, fourty industrial and academic partners attended the Yearly ConsenCUS General Assembly at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Schotland. Project updates from the different work packages were discussed through lively presentations and discussions. As the project… Read more > General Assembly 2023

The technological innovations being developed within the ConsenCUS project are progressing fast. So we are starting our demonstration campaign according to plan end this year. The campaign will put the technologies to the test in real-life industrial settings and demonstrate… Read more > Introducing CCUS into society – Exploitation of the ConsenCUS project’s results

The event took place on the 18th of January 2023 in “Noesis” a technological museum in the city of Thessaloniki. In total 51 students and 4 teachers participated in this educational fieldtrip. Fifteen students participated in a role-playing game, while… Read more > 2nd Community Event in Greece

ConsenCUS joined other Horizon funded CCUS projects in a 2-day LCA to CCUS workshop to discuss the ins and outs of doing Life Cycle Assessment studies of CCUS solutions.This workshop was initiated by the project eForFuel and with input form ConsenCUS… Read more > LCA Workshop – December ‘22

On October the 19th the first Greek based ConsenCUS community event took place in the chamber of commerce in Poligiros, Halkidiki. The event was co-organised by Robert Gordon university and Grecian Magnesite. The purpose of the event was to inform… Read more > Community Event Greece

At the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference, held in Lyon mid-October, ConsenCUS was invited to give al presentation of the projects’ vision, status and challenges. Presented by the coordinator of our Technical Committee, DTU’s (Danish Technology University) Uffe Bihlet,… Read more > GHG-T Conference 2022

RGU’s systematic review of articles on community acceptance and social impact of CCUS has been published. ConsenCUS partner Robert Gordon University has published an article in the journal PLoS ONE describing a systematic meta-narrative literature review on this topic, based… Read more > RGU’s systematic review is published

The Romanian Energy Policy Group (EPG) has published an article on a preliminary analysis of the Romanian situation regarding the strategic narratives shaping the public discourse and perception of CCUS projects: Reaching climate neutrality will require an upheaval in deploying… Read more > Stories of carbon capture, utilization and storage – dubbed in Romanian

The technical team of DTU – the ConsenCUS partner involved in the construction of the demonstration plant-  made a visit to Aalborg Portland. Aalborg Portland, a leading site in the CEMENTIR holding with regard to sustainable activities and CO2 emission… Read more > Site-visit to cement-factory for CO2-capture demonstration

Heriot-Watt University from Edingburgh, Scotland, is one of our ConsenCUS partners that contribute to the development of the technique in our project. They are seeking an excellent and motivated postdoctoral research associate to work on ConsenCUS. This major EU project… Read more > Postdoc position with Heriot Watt University

On Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th of October 2021 the ConsenCUS partners met each other in a full-packed productive two-day meeting. Despite the hurdles of travelling in COVID-time, 30+ persons attended the meetings, with more followers via digital channels. The… Read more > ConsenCUS project Meeting 26/27 October

Is using renewable electricity to capture and convert industrial CO2 emissions realistic at a large scale? What can you do with it after capture and how do local communities participate in the profits? An international consortium led by New Energy… Read more > ConsenCUS: international collaboration on innovation in carbon capture, utilisation and storage