Energy firm E.ON UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are awarding GBP6.9m (USD10.4m) to four UK-based universities to research carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. The universities of Nottingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Leeds will lead the projects.
?Carbon capture and storage is already a research priority for UK researchers and through previous Research Council funding we have built up a significant expertise within the academic sector,? says EPSRC CEO, David Delpy. ?The research programmes we’re announcing today mean that we can rapidly build on this expertise and speed up the introduction of these vital greener energy technologies."
Funding will go to four projects spanning differing areas of CCS. The first, led by the University of Nottingham, will explore the effect of chemically modifying surfaces to increase carbon dioxide absorption, as a potential alternative to the use of amines in post-combustion capture systems.
A consortium led by Newcastle University will develop ways to overcome challenges associated to large-scale transportation of carbon dioxide through pipelines.
A team including Leeds University, Imperial College London, the University of Nottingham, Cranfield University and University of Cambridge will work on the oxyfuel combustion process. This involves burning coal in a mixture of oxygen and a power plant’s flue gas which creates a stream of carbon dioxide suitable for sequestration.
The final project, solely funded by the EPSRC, will be led by the University of Edinburgh and work on improving the economics of CCS.
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