Sectors of application
Cement industry, metallurgy, and other CO₂-emitting sectors
Our offer
The CO₂ Lab
For over 25 years, R&D has been developing expertise in the field of CO₂ capture, storage, and utilization (CCUS), with the main objectives of assessing the technical and economic maturity, environmental benefits, and overall relevance of these technologies.
In May 2024, EDF R&D opened a new laboratory supported by advanced simulation tools, enabling projections at an industrial scale: the CO₂ Lab.
Offers
- Analysis, numerical simulation, and optimization of the energy and environmental performance of your processes.
- Conducting techno-economic studies.
- Performing customized laboratory tests with low-concentration flue gases (CO₂, N₂, O₂, and pollutants).
- Support in implementing these solutions on your sites.
Interested? The researchers at the CO₂ Lab offer studies to help you choose the right decarbonization strategy. The laboratory modules can even be transported directly to your site.
Your challenges
- Characterize your CO₂ emissions
- Adapt your processes to reduce emissions and meet your environmental ambitions
- Gain a better understanding and assessment of capture technologies suited to your needs
- Test these solutions in the laboratory on emissions representative of your facilities
Our strengths
- Strong and long-standing expertise, internationally recognized, in CO₂ capture process modeling
- Partnerships with companies and universities in process engineering
- Experimental and numerical simulation know-how, developed at different scales since 2010
- A multi-technology test bench, member of the ECCSEL ERIC network (the European network for sharing experimental facilities on CO₂ capture)
Use case examples
Safran-Pure (2024–2025): Testing of materials for CO₂ capture
Aluminium Dunkerque (2021–2023): Proposal for process improvement, customized benchmark of capture technologies, techno-economic feasibility study, and preliminary design of a CO₂ capture unit
VICAT (2022–2023): Member of the working group on capture technology expertise for the HYNOVI project
ArcelorMittal (2021): Techno-economic feasibility study and preliminary design of a CO₂ capture unit
EDF: Benchmarking of various capture processes, scale-up of technologies, and laboratory testing on flue gases with pollutants, etc.