Workshop on biomass combustion and CCUS

On September 21^st, the IEA Bioenergy Task 32 organised a workshop aiming at describing consequences of installing carbon capture technology at biomass and waste combustion units. Ea Energy Analyses is the Danish representative in Task 32 (read about this work here).

Bioenergy combined with carbon capture and utilisation or storage, also known as BECCUS, is a concept that has been discussed in climate change mitigation research for quite some time. During the last five years the implementation has become the subject of serious consideration within governments and private actors.

The workshop was targeted plant operators and highlighted experiences with the development of concrete European projects as well as results of project activities of the BECCUS 2.0 project, which has been conducted by several tasks in IEA Bioenergy. Results of a modelling case of installation of a full-scale CC facility at an existing large biomass CHP plant and a study of BECCUS options at smaller scale biomass combustion units were highlighted.

The workshop was carried out online. All slides can be found here.

Workshop agenda

• 13.00: Welcome and introduction. By Morten Tony Hansen, IEA Bioenergy Task 32/Ea Energy Analyses
• 13.10: Welcome and brief description of the completed BECCUS 1.0 and ongoing BECCUS 2.0 projects. By Christian Bang, IEA Bioenergy Task 40/Ea Energy Analyses

Part I

• 13.30: Successful demonstration of CC and upcoming large-scale CC at large WtE plant, Denmark. By Jannik Kappel, Amager Resource Centre
• 13.50: CCS at the Klemetsrud WtE plant in Oslo, Norway. By Michael Becidan, IEA Bioenergy Task 36/SINTEF
• 14.10: CCS at small scale WtE plant, experiences from pilot at Thisted Forsyning, Denmark. By Morten Pipper, SEG
• 14.30: Modelling full-scale implementation of CCS at large wood chip fuelled CHP plant in Denmark. By Jesper Werling, Ea Energy Analyses

Short break

Part II

• 15.00: Experiences with preparation of full-scale CCS at Värtanverken in Stockholm, Sweden. By Fabian Levihn, Stockholm Exergi AB
• 15.20: Options for CCUS at small-scale biomass combustion systems. By Sebnem Madrali, Natural Resources, Canada
• 15.40: Progress with full-scale CC at wood chip fuelled CHP Amagervaerket in Copenhagen, Denmark. By Anders Evald, HOFOR

Part III

• 16.00: Moderated panel debate between speakers from part I and II with questions from the audience.
• 17.00: Concluding remarks