Asahi Kasei Europe participates in multi-partner project
Asahi Kasei’s electrolyser technology will be one of the cornerstones for CO2 reuse and therefore the reduction of CO2 emissions.
The ALIGN-CCUS Project Consortium announced the launch of the ALIGNCCUS (carbon capture, utilisation and storage) Project, a partnership project which runs from 2017 to 2020 and consists of 31 research institutes and industrial companies from five European countries.
The project received €15m funding from the European ERA-NET ACT (Accelerating CCS Technologies) fund and aims at transforming six European industrial regions into low-carbon centres by 2025.
ACT is a European Union initiative to accelerate the deployment of safe and cost-effective carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. ACT receives funding support from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 instrument, the ERA NET Cofund.
Hideki Tsutsumi, managing director, said: “The ALIGN-CCUS project contributes to reducing CO2 emissions in the fields of transportation and power generation. We are very happy to participate in this project by using our alkaline water electrolysis system to produce green hydrogen. By further improving our technology we will be a leading company for the realisation of a hydrogen society”.
Europe, with its ambitious goals for CO2 reduction, its drop-out of nuclear energy by 2022 and its high share of electric power supply by renewable energy sources, has a high need for reliable CCUS- and power storage technologies.
Hydrogen has been the focus recent years in the field of energy storage (Power-to-Gas) and to produce fuel for automobiles (Power-to-Fuel).
Hydrogen produced with Asahi Kasei’s alkaline water electrolysis system and CO2 captured at power plants will be transformed into fuels such as green methanol and green dimethyl ether (DME).
Together with European partner institutions and companies, Asahi Kasei Europe will be a member of Work Package 4 of the ALIGN-CCUS Project.
