GCCRN Projects – CCUS

CCUS describes processes that capture CO2 emissions from industrial sources, and either reuses them in other industrial activity or stores them for centuries or millennia. 

Core and Partner Projects

Core Projects 

  1. Post-combustion electrochemical CO2 capture (ECC) for cement plants and Carbon dioxide capture with pillared clays in PSA processes 
  2. Carbonated Microstructure via CO2 Utilization 

Partner Projects 

  1. Extending the scalability of carbonated products for industrial applications 
  2. Mineralized clinker with fluorine addition 
  3. Optimization of processes for CO2 conversion into methanol 
  4. Effect of early CO2 curing on microstructure and performances of Portland cement-GGBS-fly ash ternary concrete 
  5. Effect of Binder Content on Carbon Capture by Carbonation and Steel Corrosion 
  6. Towards Enhanced Carbon Capture in Recycling Waste Concrete 
  7. Carbon dioxide capture with pillared clays in PSA processes 
  8. CO2 Conversion into methanol: catalytic process optimization 
  9. Techno-economic assessment of hybrid CO2 capture processes based on partial-oxyfuel + post-combustion

Scientific Contributors

Core Projects Partners: 

  1. Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) 
  2. Southeast University 
  3. Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
  4. Universidade de Lisboa 
  5. Wuhan University of Technology

Partner Projects: 

  1. CNRS/SIMaP 
  2. Hunan University 
  3. Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) 
  4. Tsinghua University 
  5. Universidade de Lisboa 
  6. Université de Mons 
  7. University of Sao Paolo 
  8. Wuhan University of Technology

Article References

2024

[1] R. Djettene, L. Dubois, M.E. Duprez, G. De Weireld, D. Thomas, Integrated CO2 capture and conversion into methanol units: Assessing techno-economic and environmental aspects compared to CO2 into SNG alternative, J. CO2 Util. 85 (2024) 102879. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCOU.2024.102879.

2023-2022 

[2] C. Lv, Z. Liu, F. Wang, S. Hu, Phase evolution and pulverization mechanism of self-pulverizing carbonatable clinkers, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 106 (2023) 1391–1412. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.18793. 

[3] P. He, S. Drissi, X. Hu, J. Liu, C. Shi, Investigation on the influential mechanism of FA and GGBS on the properties of CO2-cured cement paste, Cem. Concr. Compos. 142 (2023) 105186. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CEMCONCOMP.2023.105186. 

[4] B. Lu, S. Drissi, J. Liu, X. Hu, B. Song, C. Shi, Effect of temperature on CO2 curing, compressive strength and microstructure of cement paste, Cem. Concr. Res. 157 (2022) 106827. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CEMCONRES.2022.106827.