Agenda

• While many countries committed to the Paris Agreement with plans and targets for mitigating their CO2 emissions, but what are the significant misconception of CCUS?
• How regulatory policy can help to accelerate the development of CCUS technology in keeping on track of net-zero carbon emission by 2050?
• Funding challenges – strategies in financing to fuel the various stages to commercialization CCUS technology despite some sort of funding support at early development stage

John Beever
Chair
CO2 Value Australia

• Explore the opportunities presented by emerging carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies for Australia to support new industries and reduce carbon emissions.
• Determine the key advantages, barriers, and considerations to support scale-up for identified areas of CCU opportunity for Australia by drawing on extensive national and international consultation, modelling and analysis.
• Provide key recommendations to facilitate the rapid deployment and upscaling of those CCU technologies identified as having the most potential.

• Retrofitting CCUS technology at CO2 point source to capture produced CO2 and convert it into hugely valuable to industry
• Creating nanoparticles that act as a catalyst to turn carbon dioxide into syngas – a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide used in industrial manufacturing
• Scaling the potential of its technology that applies to convert wider scope of waste CO2 emitted by power plants

• How new nanotechnologies use CO2 as a resource to produce fuels and chemicals, as well as new energy conversion and storage technologies to reduce CO2 emissions
• How nanocatalysts can reduce the activation energy and contribute up to 35% of the world’s GDP
• How its nanotechnology can achieve with combination of nanomaterials synthesis, process engineering, data science, molecular science and computation, augmented by Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Woodside-Monash Energy’s recent innovations in liquid phase catalytic approaches to produce bulk chemicals like formaldehyde and its derivatives
• Advantages of Liquid phase catalysis over gas phase conversion – lower temperatures, controlled selective conversion towards desired products and cascade reactions which shift the equilibrium of the reaction to achieve high conversion

• Impact of the Otway International Test Centre in the CCUS infrastructure
• State-of-the-art seismic monitoring array for observing and benchmarking subsurface technologies and processes
• All necessary regulatory approvals and support of local communities to complete CCUS investigations

• Overview of The CarbonNet project and its impact on the feasibility for a commercial-scale, multi-user Carbon Dioxide (CO2) transport and storage network connecting industry in the Latrobe Valley to world class CO2 storage sites offshore in the Gippsland Basin
• What is the latest project development and commercial establishment
• What are the next steps of the CarbonNet project to show its sustainability and scalability

• Assessing the potential of an integrated CCUS hub in the Surat Basin that captures and safely stores emissions from multiple coal generators and other industrial sources, including gas, hydrogen, cement and chemicals
• Store significant volumes of CO2 through the delivery of critical infrastructure to reduce and remove existing and future sources of industrial emissions
• How its integrated post-combustion capture (PCC) plant can capture 110,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum
• How its CO2 storage could potentially service multiple industrial users including coal, natural gas and hydrogen

• The first low-emissions intensity lime and cement pilot project (LEILAC-1) in mitigating CO2
• How its direct separation carbon capture technology capture CO2 as it is released from the limestone from its heating process and yet separating furnace exhaust gases
• How its LEILAC-2 plant separated 20% of regular plant’s process emissions which comprise an estimated 100 ktpa of CO2

• Business models enabled by CCS
• Methodologies to screen and mature marketable volumes of CO2 Storage Resources
• Technical criteria to ensure containment and storage safety including depleted fields and saline aquifers