CO2 Utilisation Technologies (CarbonTech) for HIC Rotterdam – Botlek: an exploration of opportunities

The Rotterdam Climate Agreement (RKA), concluded in November 2019, presents 49 climate deals to deliver a 49% CO₂ emission reduction by 2030 of the Rotterdam-Moerdijk port – industrial region. The number of climate deals shows that there is a broad range of potential measures to reduce CO2 emissions. An area of particular interest is Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU), through which captured CO2 from industrial processes can be valorized rather than storing it in depleted natural gas fields. The Fieldlab Industrial Electrification (FLIE) is a cooperation between several parties working towards sustainable transformation of the industry (www.FLIE.nl ) and has the capability to demonstrate and scale up different CCU technologies, through its pilot lines for direct and indirect CO2 conversion. FLIE has recognized that there is a need to provide industrial companies in the Rotterdam-Moerdijk port and industrial region with a better insight into potential CCU options for their specific (operational) production processes. For that reason, FLIE has initiated the CarbonTech study, in order to make an inventory of the region’s CCU interest. The study is financially supported through funding made available to FLIE by the municipality of Rotterdam. The project set-up for the CarbonTech study has been as follows: • Establishing a long-list of industrial companies in the Rotterdam-Moerdijk port and industrial region, of which 10 were shortlisted for the study; • Introductory meetings with shortlisted companies, to explain objective of the study and to collect relevant information from participating companies on their product flows (raw materials, intermediates and final products) including block schemes; • Analysis of possible CCU routes for participating companies (based on their inputs); • Individual feedback reports for participating companies, delivered during feedback sessions, providing high-level inventory of promising CCU routes.