Chinese-European Emission-Reducing Solutions (CHEERS) R&D project kicks off

The Chinese-European Emission-Reducing Solutions project (CHEERS) has now received all formal confirmations from the funding agencies. On 28 November, 30 members and representatives of the CHEERS project consortium gathered in Trondheim, Norway, to formally kick off the project. The project will, within five years, look to develop, upscale and test a 2^nd generation chemical-looping technology at a scale of 3MW to produce energy and steam with Captured CO₂. The aim will be to drastically reduce the efficiency drop of the CO₂ capture chain. The innovative concept is deemed capable of removing 96% of combustion-related CO₂ while eliminating capture losses to less than 4%, except for the CO₂ compression work. Thereby, the project seeks to make a major step towards large-scale carbon footprint reduction of power/steam generation system using heavy feed namely petcoke.

With a budget of €16.8 million, the project is partially financed by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 764697 together with the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Chinese industry. The system prototype demonstration, which is based on a fundamentally new fuel-conversion process, will be carried out at the Key Laboratory for Clean Combustion and Flue Gas Purification of the Sichuan Province, in Deyang, P.R. China.

The responsibility of the action lies with the CHEERS consortium, which comprises nine parties: SINTEF Energi (coordinator, Trondheim, Norway), IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) (Lyon, France), Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), SINTEF Industry (Oslo, Norway), Total (France), Dongfang Boiler Group (Zigong, China), Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China), Politeknika Slaska (SILESIAN) (Gliwice, Poland), and Bellona (Brussels, Belgium).