The BIGCO2 R&D Platform builds knowledge and technology underpinning demonstration of power generation with carbon capture and storage (CCS) at industrial scale.

The main objectives of BIGCO2 are to pave the ground for gas power generation that employ CO₂ capture and storage with the potential of fulfilling the following compound target. 

• 90% CO₂ capture rate
• 50% cost reduction
• fuel-to-electricity penalty less than 7 percent compared with state-of-the-art gas power generation

• Fabrication and sealing technology for ceramic high temperature oxygen transport membranes (OTM)
• Production of membrane modules for oxygen

• Calorimetric measurements of equilibrium constants
• Computational chemistry
• Dynamic modelling and simulations of post-combustion absorption systems

• Novel laminar flame speed experiments
• Numerical simulations of combustion instabilities in a variable cross-section geometry

• Developing a new and improved flame model for attached flames

• Benchmarking methodology developed for CO₂ capture processes
• Parametric study to investigate the interdependencies and trade-offs in thermal power production with MEA-based CO₂ post-combustion capture and compression

• Provide a consistent and transparent methodology for the analysis of CO₂ chains illustrating governing mechanisms and dependencies
• Developing a common framework and modelling tools
• Carry out relevant case studies

• Theoretical description of the stability of the diffusive boundary layer between a CO₂ gas cap in a saline aquifer and the water column below
• History matching CO₂ EOR laboratory experiments
• CO₂-flooding of fractured chalk cores

• Building the world’s largest CLC reactor ready for pressurisation

• A second generation 150 kW_th CLC reactor design based on industrial circulating fluidised bed solutions
• Development of reactor modelling tools
• Development of oxide carrier materials