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Collaboration with Australia
Also Australia with its vast hard coal resources and top research in
this area is an interesting country for cooperation. The research on CO2 capture of Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) (www.co2crc.com.au)
located in Australia and the Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships
program should be known to the consortium. Even though there are
currently several demonstration plants in Australia, which are all based
on amine scrubbing systems, also new technologies will be investigated.
INTERACT aims at the development of new technologies, to build a
European new generation CO2 capture technology platform that aims to spread know-how to the upwards mentioned regions of the world.
Hence, INTERACT will collaborate within twinning activities with two Australian projects:
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Development of novel ionic liquids to capture CO2 (IL-AUS);
Project Number: 3-0510-0050
Development of novel ionic liquids to capture CO2 - CSIRO.pdf -
Reduced cost post-combustion CO2 capture from coal fired power stations with enzymes (Coal-AUS);
Project Number: 3-1110-0099
Reduced cost PCC from coal fired power stations with enzymes - CSI.pdf
They are supported by ANLEC R&D, a funding entity that is funded on
equal basis by the Australian Coal Association and the Department for
Resources, Energy and Tourism (RET).
The collaboration will take place at two levels which are the
technological level and the knowledge level. At the technological level,
benchmarking of equipment, materials as well experimental procedures
will be performed. It is ensured by either exchanging materials or the
use of standard material to test the performance as well as exchanging
researchers to perform experimental test in the other project. That
allows increasing the accuracy of the experimental results as well as
increases the trust in those. Additionally, at the sites of the
Australian partners, the developed technologies will be tested with real
flue gas from Australian power plants. That enables a performance test
under realistic conditions for the developed technologies. At the
knowledge level, combined workshops as well as researcher exchanges as
well as combines conferences are planned to create synergies for
improving research results. The cooperation with this project has been
endorsed by the Australian Government.