Research Fund for Coal and Steel - RFCS
Managed by the European Commission the RFCS supports research and innovation projects in the areas of coal and steel overall in the amount of around 40 € million per annum.
You can get more information via the link.
Link to other projects
RECPP - Re-purposing Coal Power Plants during Energy transition
The question of a possible secondary use of decommissioned coal-fired power plant sites has already been examined in the RFCS project RECPP. Therefore, some of the insights gained could be utilized for the current project GreenDEALCO2.
Link to publications
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Final workshop presentation
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Further publications are in preparation and will be published soon.
News
2024
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Completion of the project with the submission of the final reports
Project presentation at ECOS 2024 Conference
Successful project presentation as part of the final workshop on June 18th at the 'Haus der Technik' in Essen (Germany)
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Project presentation on April 16th at vgbe-congress in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany)
Virtual consortium interim meeting
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Task 4.2 ' Life cycle costing of power-to--fuel integration' completed
Task 5.4 'Guarantees of origin for renewable electricity and EU ETS framework for E-fuels' completed
The final reports were successfull submitted.
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Consortium meeting at Technical Univerity of Athens (Hybrid event)
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Task 3.2: 'Operation optimisation for power-to-fuel integration' completed
Task 4.1: 'Life cycle analysis of power-to-fuel integration' completed
Task 5.2: 'Analysis of certification requirements and development of pilot vertification' completed
The final reports were successfull submitted.
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Virtual consortium interim meeting with workshop for work package 5.
Task 5.1: 'Analysis of regulatory framework conditions on EU and selected member states level'
The final report was successfull submitted.
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Task 1.4: 'Techno-economic analysis for retrofitting of end-of-life coal power plants' completed
Task 1.2: 'Retrofitting to hydrogen/substitute natural gas firing plants' completed
The final reports were successfull submitted.
Virtual consortium meeting with kick-off for preparing '1st periodic reporting'
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Virtual consortium interim meeting
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Task 2.4: 'Techno economic analysis for stranded assets' completed
The final report was successful submitted
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Task 2.1: 'Closed coal plant combined with a waste-to-energy plant' comleted
The final report was successful submitted.
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Consortium meeting at University of Stuttgart with workshops for work package 2 and 3 (Hybrid Event)
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Task 2.2: 'Closed coal plant combined with neighbouring industries' completed
Task 2.3: 'Topping cycles and uses of steam turbines' completed
Task 3.1: 'Design optimisation for power-to-fuel integration' completed
The final reports were successful submitted
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Consortium meeting (Online)
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Task 1.1: 'Retrofitting to solid recovered fuels and biomass firing plants' completed
The final report was successful submitted
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Comprehensive overview report successful submitted
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Consortium meeting at University of Athens with workpackage 3 - workshop (Hybrid Event)
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Official start of the project and launch of the website
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Kick-Off Meeting (Online)
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