ELEGANCY – Enabling a Low-Carbon Economy via Hydrogen and CCS

Project programme

Decisions on full-scale CCS deployment need to be made as a matter of urgency in order for Europe to achieve the steep build-out required to deliver on the Paris Agreement – and avoid irreversible climate change. ELEGANCY is designed specifically to provide the knowledge needed to make such decisions on an informed basis.

Primary objective:
Fast-track the decarbonization of Europe's energy system by exploiting the synergies between two key low-carbon technologies: CCS and H₂. To this end, ELEGANCY will:

Develop and demonstrate effective CCS technologies with high industrial relevance.
Identify and promote business opportunities for industrial CCS enabled by H₂ as a key energy carrier by performing five national case studies.
Validate key elements of the CCS chain by frontier pilot- and laboratory-scale experiments using inter alia ECCSEL and EPOS research infrastructure.
Optimize combined systems for H₂ production and H₂-CO₂ separation by combining basic science with the technology developments necessary for increased TRL of these systems.
De-risk storage of CO₂ produced from NG reforming for H₂ production by providing experimental data and validated models.
Enable safe, cost-efficient design and operation of key elements of the CCS chain by developing cutting edge, innovative design and simulation tools.
Provide an open source techno-economic design and operation simulation tool for the full CCS chain, including H₂ as energy carrier.
Assess societal support of key elements of CCS, enabling early identification and mitigation of risks.