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The CO2CRC is one of the world’s leading collaborative research organisations focussed on carbon dioxide capture and geological storage.
More than 110 researchers in Australia and New Zealand are collaborating to develop safe and economical CO2 geosequestration technologies that will make deep cuts in Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and, therefore, reduce the potential impact of climate change.
More than 110 researchers in Australia and New Zealand are collaborating to develop safe and economical CO2 geosequestration technologies that will make deep cuts in Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and, therefore, reduce the potential impact of climate change.
CO2CRC
StorageResearch &
Demonstration
Capture Research &Demonstration
CO2CRC Participants
Established & supported under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Programme
Supporting participants: Australian Greenhouse Office | Australian National University | | CANSYD | Meiji University | The Process Group | University of Queensland | Newcastle University |
Major Australian RD&D Initiatives
• Victorian Energy Technology & Innovation Strategy (ETIS)
– A$161 million research funds for both brown coal and renewables projects
• Qld Clean Coal Fund
– A$300 million government funding for low emission technologies from black coal, including CCS
• Western Australian Low Emission Energy Development Fund
– A$36.5 million government funding
• NSW Clean Energy Fund
– A$100 million government funding, details still being developed
• Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund
– A$500 million Australian government funding matched 2:1 by industry
• COAL21
– A$1 billion over 10 years as a levy on coal sales
CCS Projects currently planned or underway in Australia
Australian CCS Projects
Name Lead Status Scale Capture Storage Commence
Otway CO2CRC Funded Demo 2008
Hazelwood Int Power/ CO2CRC Funded Demo 2008
Munmorah Delta/ CSIRO Funded Demo 2008
Loy Yang Loy Yang/ CSIRO Funded Demo 2009
HRL HRL/ CO2CRC Funded Demo 2009
Callide CS Energy Funded Demo 2010
Moomba Santos Feasibility Comm 2010
Fairview GE/ Santos Funded Demo 2010
Kwinana DF3 BP/Rio Tinto Feasibility Comm 2012
ZeroGen Stanwell/ Shell Feasibility Comm 2012
Gorgon Chevron Feasibility Comm 2012
Coolimba Aviva Corporation Feasibility Comm 2012
Monash Anglo/ Shell Feasibility Comm 2015
FuturGas Hybrid Energy SA Feasibility Comm 2015
Otway Basin Project, Victoria
Otway Basin Project, Victoria
Description – Australia’s most advanced
storage project, involving demonstration of
geological storage of CO2 (in a depleted gas
field and a saline aquifer) and monitoring and
verification of the behaviour of the stored CO2.
Storage – Depleted gas field at 2000m depth• Storage Commence – early 2008• Storage Rate – up to 100,000 tonnes
total over approx one year
Cost – $A 40M plus
Partners – CO2CRC, Industry, Government
and Researchers including Australian and New
Zealand Universities, CSIRO, GA, LBNL, ARC
Hazelwood, International Power, Victoria
Hazelwood, International Power, Victoria
Description – Retrofit 200MW boiler in
Latrobe Valley. Will demonstrate RWE
steam fluidised bed drying and small scale
CO2 capture.
Capture – Post Combustion• Capture Commence – late 2008• Capture Capacity – 10 000 tpa
Cost – $A 445 million ($A 50 million LETDF
+ $A 30M ETIS)
Partners – International Power, Alstom,
RWE, Process Group, CO2CRC
CO2CRC Involvement: CO2 post combustion capture (with Process Group) using proprietary technology (UNO patent)
Loy Yang, Victoria
Loy Yang, Victoria
Description – Develop baseline performance of CO2 capture using conventional amines, novel amines currently under development and new sorbent systems that may arise from R&D.
Capture – Post Combustion
• Capture commence – 2009
• Capture capacity – 1000 kg pa
Partners – Loy Yang, CSIRO
CO2CRC Involvement: This and the Hazelwood project are part of a Latrobe Valley PCC Project