Glossary
Updated (Oct 2018) Glossary of Terminology
The language of CCS (Definitions and Explanations)
Reports
IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage 2005
Review of Offshore Monitoring for CCS Projects
Complementary Projects
CHIMNEY – Characterisation of Major Overburden Leakage Pathways above Sub-sea floor CO2 Storage Reservoirs in the North Sea
H2020 EU funded CCS Projects
ACT – Accelerating CCS Technologies
ALIGN-CCS – Accelerating Low Carbon Industrial Growth through CCUS
CarbFix2 - Scaling up the CarbFix demonstrated technology to general and economically viable complete CCS chain
CEMCAP – CO2 capture from the cement industry
ELEGANCY– Enabling a low-carbon economy via hydrogen and CCS
ENOS – Enabling Onshore CO2 Geological Storage in Europe
FReSMe – From Residual Steel Gases to Methanol
GATEWAY – Developing a Pilot Case aimed at establishing a European infrastructure project for CO2 transport
NANOMEMC2 – NanoMaterials Enhanced Membranes for Carbon Capture
ROLINCAP – Systematic Design and Testing of Advanced Rotating Packed Bed Processes and Phase-Change Solvents for Intensified Post-Combustion CO2 Capture
SECURe – Subsurface Evaluation of CCS and Unconventional Risks
S4CE – Science for Clean Energy
STEELANOL – Recycles carbon into sustainable, advanced bio-ethanol
STEPWISE – Cost efffective capturing of CO2 in the iron and steel industry
STRATEGY CCUS - Strategic planning of regions and territories in Europe for low-carbon energy and industry through CCUS
Organisations
CATO – CO2 Capture Transport and Storage in The Netherlands
CCSa – The Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA)
Global CCS Institute – Australia
IEAGHG – IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme
IPCC – International Panel on Climate Change
SCCS – Scottish Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage
TxCCSA – Texas Carbon Capture and Storage Association
UCL – Carbon Capture Legal Programme
UKCCSRC – UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre
UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
ZEP – Zero Emissions Platform
Other Projects
Acorn CCS Project – A minimum viable development full chain industrial CCS project
Accsept – Acceptance of CO2 Capture and Storage, Economics, Policy and Technology
CarbFix – Fixing CO2 by injection into basalt rocks
CCS Network – The European CCS Demonstration Project Network
CO2GeoNet – The European Network of Excellence on the Geological Storage of CO2
CO2Mustang – A multiple space and time scale approach for the quantification of deep saline formations for CO2 storage
CO2ReMove – Research, Monitoring, Verification
CO2 GeoCapacityProject – Assessing European Capacity for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide
COACH – Cooperation between China and the EU on CCS
eccsel – European Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage Laboratory Infrastructure
ECO2 – Sub-seabed CO2 Storage: Impact on Marine Ecosystems
INCA-CO2 – International Co-operation Actions on CO2 Capture and Storage
MOVECBM – Monitoring and Verification of Enhanced Coalbed Methane
NearCO2 – Participation and communication near CO2 capture and storage operations
Oman Drilling project – A multi-national collaboration to explore ancient seafloor in the deserts of Oman
QICS – Quantifying and Monitoring Potential Ecosystem Impacts of Geological Carbon Storage
RISCS – Research into impacts and safety in CO2 storage
CCS Sites
CO2 CRC – Otway Project (Australia)
KETZIN – CCS Pilot Project (Germany)
Weyburn-Midale – CO2 Project (USA)
Quest – Canada
Other Resources
Carbonize – Tool to measure the carbon impact of everyday purchases