On September 22nd, the MetCCUS participants met in-person to discuss the final results of the project after 3 years. NPL kindly hosted the meeting. They were also celebrating 125 years of science and impact — to mark this milestone.
🏆The project has raised a metrology infrastructure for monitoring the CO2 flow, developing calibration facilities for gaseous CO2 and investigating the state of the art for traceable liquid CO2 flow measurement. MetCCUS also developed metrological tools to support the measurement and reporting of nitrosamine emissions from CO2 capture plants and CO2 leaks, in order to ensure the environmental integrity of CCUS infrastructure.
📚The project studied the chemical composition of CO2, developing primary reference materials for key impurities in CO2, used to calibrate monitoring equipment. The consortium provided understanding of the physical properties of CO2, producing experimental data and working on simple formulations of equations of state for CO2 mixtures with impurities.
Although the project ends, the impact continues — paving the way for the scale-up of CCUS in Europe and new research building on MetCCUS findings.
🔗 Publications: More are coming soon!
MetCCUS Website: Publications Archives – MetCCUS
MetCCUS Zenodo: Search Metrology Support for Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage
Note: The gathering was so engaging that, remarkably, we even observed a fox outside the facilities! (scroll down to see it)
