IRSECX2025: Exploring CCUS for Emissions Reduction

Global CCUS advances with tech breakthroughs: PET turned to BAETA (carbon capture), China’s shipborne CCUS certified. It also gets finance support (GF Bank’s first CCUS loan) but faces challenges (limited storage, DAC funding). CCUS Summit (Nov22-23) and Industrial Wastewater Summit (Nov20-21), 2025, will be held in Suzhou, focusing on low-carbon innovation.

Empa consortium awarded funding to reduce hard-to-abate #CO2 emissions 👏 The ACHIEVE consortium is a six-year effort that unites 14 partners from science, business and policy. Together, members will test cutting-edge carbon capture, storage and utilization, explore circular economy approaches, and even pilot CO2 injection deep underground. ACHIEVE aims to unlock real, scalable climate solutions and chart Switzerland’s path to #netzero. The consortium is led by Empa as host institution; its partners are ETH Zürich, PSI Paul Scherrer Institut and Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL – as well as Université de Genève, HEIG-VD, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI), Universität Bern, Université de Neuchâtel, CLB Schweiz Ltd., Stiftung Risiko-Dialog, INFRAS, TBF + Partner AG and Storra Dynamics GmbH. The call for proposals Addressing Hard-To-Abate Emissions to Reach the Net-Zero Target of Switzerland was jointly launched by Bundesamt für Energie BFE and the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN. 👉️Read on: https://lnkd.in/eutxMjRa Nathalie Casas #empamaterialsscience

We are very excited to be part of the recently-funded ACHIEVE consortium to continue our work for the next phase of the CITru #CCS injection pilot here in Switzerland. Storra (legally Storra Dynamics GmbH) will be continuing and deepening our work on the measurement monitoring and verification (#MMV) plan and risk assessment. We are looking forward to collaborating amongst 13 other partners in the ACHIEVE consortium: Empa, ETH Zürich, PSI Paul Scherrer Institut, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, University of Geneva, HEIG-VD, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, University of Bern, Université de Neuchâtel, CLB Schweiz Ltd., Stiftung Risiko-Dialog, INFRAS, TBF + Partner AG. The proposal is partly funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE and the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN. #CarbonStorage #MMV #MonitoringOptimisation #StorraDynamicsGmbH

It was fantastic to attend the Carbon Capture and Storage Association's Carbon Capture and Storage Association's CCUS2025 Real Projects, Real Impact, Delivering Net Zero Conference held at the QEII Centre in London. Over the last two days, we heard about the amazing developments in the CCUS sector in the UK, Europe and across the world in the last year. One key takeaway is the ongoing need for collaboration, knowledge sharing and standardisation to support the development and scale up of the CCUS industry globally. At the Energy Institute, we continue to support the CCUS industry through collaborating with industry, regulators, academia and wider stakeholders and developing technical good practice guidance and research papers. To explore the EI’s CCUS guidelines, visit our publications website: https://lnkd.in/eDFdXh9P #CCUS #CarbonCapture #NetZero #IndstrialDecarbonisation #Collaboration

Advancing CO₂ Transport Together This week Sofie Skotting and myself are in London for CCUS 2025, joining the conversation on how to move carbon capture and storage forward - quite literally. At Svitzer, we’re engaging with industry and policy leaders to explore how safe, reliable CO₂ transport by sea can help unlock scalable CCUS solutions across Europe. Because the energy transition needs every route to net zero. ⚓️ #CCUS2025 #Decarbonisation #Maritime #Svitzer #EnergyTransition

With Jeremy Jebamoney leading the way, Australian Carbon Vault is making strong progress in advancing carbon removal and storage initiatives. The broader CCUS, CCS, and CDR industries are gaining momentum across all fronts as global efforts to scale up climate solutions continue to accelerate.

⚡ The IEEE Tech Summit 2025 CleanTech Solutions in Glasgow brought together IEEE societies, councils, and global partners to showcase leading-edge solutions across energy storage, green tech, clean technology, and more — creating space for talks, demonstrations, and hands-on exchange. Igor L., Programme Officer for Energy Efficiency at the UNECE Sustainable Energy Division, spoke on: “Twin Transitions: Governing the Digital Energy Future” He stressed that modernizing energy systems is about more than technology. Strong governance, shared standards, and resilient digital tools are essential to ensure transformation delivers systemwide benefits rather than new silos or risks. The session explored how co-designing digital and energy transitions, adapted to local contexts, can help build inclusive, reliable, and sustainable energy systems. 🗣️ Igor also underlined that digital transformation hinges on people, tools and solutions, security, and political will. 🔗 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gfwYrnVD #CleanTech #UNECE #EnergyTransition #DigitalTransition #Sustainability United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

🔷🧭🟠 ISCM: Iordanis Savvopoulos Consulting & Management 📅 Week 41/2025, Friday: Recap, Reflection & Outlook: From #CCS to #3C and further to #CO2 as Feedstock. Recap of the Week: This week at #ISCM focused on #CCS, #3C (#ClosedCarbonCycle) and #CO2 utilisation. Three stages along the same path towards #Decarbonisation. What started as a technical topic turned into a discussion about #Thermodynamics, #Infrastructure and #InvestmentLogic. #3C, the Closed Carbon Cycle, is no longer a theoretical concept but a benchmark for how seriously industry and policy are taking transformation.   Three Key Insights: 1️⃣ No progress without a loop: #CCS is essential but only through #CO2 utilisation (#CCU + #3C) can a truly closed carbon cycle emerge and with it, real #Decarbonisation. 2️⃣ Thermodynamics meets economics: Energy constraints are real, but sites with energy access and #Capture infrastructure (#Rhineland, #Rotterdam, #Leuna) demonstrate where 3C can work in practice. 3️⃣ CO₂ becomes a competitive factor: From waste to resource, #CO2 as feedstock creates a new value-creation logic for #Chemicals, #Energy and #Construction. 🔎 My Personal Perspective: #3C is more than a technical system. It’s a mindset. Those who manage #Carbon instead of avoiding it will drive industrial change. The first generation of projects won’t be perfect but it will prove that #Decarbonisation and #ValueCreation are not contradictory. Outlook Week 42 / Pharma & Chemicals in Europe: 🔹 Tuesday, 14 October 2025, the series #PharmaAndChemicalsInEurope returns. 🔹 Topic of the Week: 👉 Industrial Resilience & Innovation Axes in Europe. From Dependence to Differentiation. How Europe can find a new balance between costs, innovation and investment capacity. #ISCM #SavvopoulosInsights #CO2Reuse #ClimateTech #CircularCarbon #ChemicalsAndPharma #PharmaAndChemicalsInEurope #Innovation #IndustryEurope #Decarbonization

🚨 Excited to share highlights from our recent work presented at WEFTEC 2025! In our talk “Bridging the Gaps in GHG Monitoring from Wastewater Treatment: Insights into Temporal and Spatial Heterogeneity,” we explored how a multi-tiered monitoring approach—integrating satellite imagery, FTIR, TDL, and low-cost sensor networks—can uncover the complexities of methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions across wastewater treatment operations. 🌍 This study demonstrated that GHG emissions from WWTPs are highly heterogeneous in both time and space, challenging conventional one-dimensional monitoring strategies. Grateful to my co-authors and collaborators for their support, and to the Water Environment Federation community for engaging discussions on advancing sustainability in the water sector. #WEFTEC2025 #GHGemissions #MethaneMonitoring #WastewaterTreatment #RemoteSensing

🎉The proceedings paper from our WEFTEC 2025 presentation is now published! 📄 “Bridging the Gaps in GHG Monitoring from Wastewater Treatment: Insights into Temporal and Spatial Heterogeneity” This paper expands on our #WEFTEC2025 talk, detailing how a multi-tiered monitoring approach—integrating satellite imagery, FTIR, TDL, and low-cost sensors—provides a deeper understanding of methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions across wastewater treatment operations. A huge thank-you to my supervisor and co-authors Ke Du, Ph.D., P.Eng.,Bo Z., and Pusker Regmi, PhD, PE, BCEE, for their contributions, and to the Water Environment Federation for fostering such a great platform for advancing GHG monitoring and sustainability in the water sector. See the link: https://lnkd.in/gC9VubWS #WEFTEC2025 #GHGemissions #MethaneMonitoring #WastewaterTreatment #RemoteSensing