Project Description
Achieving climate neutrality in energy-intensive industries requires coordinated action across technologies, value chains, and organizational boundaries. While solutions such as carbon capture and industrial symbiosis are technically feasible, their large-scale implementation is often constrained by fragmented knowledge, lack of structured comparison across national contexts, and limited guidance on facilitation and readiness. IEA IETS Task XXI addresses these challenges by providing an international platform for systematizing existing experience, synthesizing lessons learned, and disseminating implementation-oriented knowledge.
Subtask 4 concentrates on carbon dioxide capture in industry by compiling comparative insights into national CO₂ management strategies, regulatory frameworks, and CCU value chains. It documents real-world integration trade-offs such as energy demand, capture efficiency, and CO₂ purity, drawing on validated national case studies rather than new research or technology development. The outcome is policy-relevant and implementation-oriented knowledge that supports informed decision-making across industrial sectors.
Subtask 5 focuses on the facilitation of industrial symbiosis. Rather than developing new tools, the subtask systematically collects and classifies existing digital and methodological facilitation tools and applies readiness frameworks such as the Industrial Symbiosis Readiness Level matrix. This enables structured assessment of symbiosis maturity, supports stakeholder coordination, and promotes intentional, repeatable collaboration models across industrial ecosystems.
The Danish participation, coordinated by the SDU Center for Energy Informatics with DTU as partner, contributes structured documentation, digital facilitation perspectives, and comparative system analysis derived from Danish and European initiatives. Results are disseminated openly through reports, workshops, and digital platforms, ensuring broad accessibility for industry, policymakers, and research communities. Through this contribution, Denmark strengthens its international role in advancing circular, low-carbon industrial systems while maximizing the public value of existing knowledge.
Project Summary
| Project period | 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2027 |
| Total budget | DKK 1.586.000 |
| Funding agency | Energiteknologisk Udviklings- og Demonstrationsprogram (EUDP) |
| Organization managing the project | SDU CEI |
| SDU project manager | Prof. Zheng Grace Ma |
| Additional partners | - Technical University of Denmark (DTU) |
