Earlier this month the MetCCUS project was figured in the Hydrogen Europe Research Newsletter for the month of July.
On this occasion the readers of the monthly newsletter were introduced to the project’s scope and informed about the first results and available reports.
Please find below the complete text featured in the Newsletter:
MEMBERS’ PROJECTS
Metrology for CCUS Project (MetCCUS)
The CCUS industry is paramount to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. CO2 Emissions from hard-to-abate sectors will rely on safe infrastructure for CCUS. For that reason, developing a metrological sound measurement infrastructure is at the forefront of the MetCCUS project.
Ensuring that the measurement needs of the industry are addressed along the whole value chain, particularly flow metering, emissions monitoring, chemical metrology and physical properties. The consortium of this 3-year EU-funded project has produced some reports which are already available online.
Several members of Hydrogen Europe Research are participating in MetCCUS. The Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) have led the production of a literature survey on commercially available cylinders for the preparation of Primary Reference Materials (PRMs) for CCUS, another literature survey on current state-of-the-art for the material compatibility of vessels for the sampling of CO2 for CCUS and more recently a report about the experiments to test the sampling of impurities, against material, for key impurities and materials.
The National Physical Laboratory in the UK (NPL) and the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) are conducting research on emissions monitoring of CO2, as well as the measurement of other air pollutants resulting from the capture process.
SINTEF Energy Research is supporting the activities related to the metrology infrastructure for monitoring CO2 gas-flow and CO2 liquid-flow. They helped produce a report on the current state of the art of traceable liquid CO2 flow measurement and liquid CO2 primary standard requirements.
Academia is very much present considering that partners such as the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Turin (UniTo), both HER members, lead various activities including the validation of methods for CO2 purity analysis and the measurement of impurities in CO2.
The MetCCUS project is coordinated by the VSL National Metrology Institute and over 20 partners. It will run until September 2025.
For more information, visit the MetCCUS website and follow the LinkedIn page.
