Since our creation in 2012, we have supported, strengthened and integrated the UK CCS community. The excellence of the UK research base is internationally recognised, with many of our 300+ academic members collaborating with CCS organisations across the world. With six memorandums of understanding signed across the globe and numerous international collaborations, the UKCCSRC is an integral part of the UK remaining a world leader in CCS technology.
We’ve funded more than 30 projects to date across the spectrum of CCS research, supporting the drive towards an affordable, low carbon future for the UK. We strive to make research freely available for the long term to maximise the value obtained from publicly funded information.
With a membership of 1,400, and two conferences a year, we bring together the community to aid collaboration and knowledge sharing. By funding travel for development opportunities, and providing training, we ensure early career researchers have the skills and networks to keep the UK at the forefront of CCS development.
We have become a vital link with industry, aligning CCS research with business needs to secure an attainable economic future for the technology. In addition, by providing written and oral evidence to Government committees, and researching public attitudes towards CCS, the UKCCSRC informs policy makers on how CCS contributes to meeting the UK’s climate change obligations.
Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (SCCS) is a partnership between the British Geological Survey, Heriot-Watt University, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde. It is a centre of excellence for research and development in carbon capture and storage, with researchers and professional staff providing world-class research and expertise across the full CCS value chain – including BECCS, DACCS, hydrogen and CO₂ utilisation – from capture engineering and geoscience to law, policy, public engagement and dissemination. The partnership comprises state-of-the-art experimental and analytical facilities, expertise in field studies and a wide range of computational modelling capabilities.
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK’s national measurement institute and is a world-leading centre of excellence in developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology. For more than a century NPL has developed and maintained the nation’s primary measurement standards. NPL has been pioneering environmental measurements for over 25 years and has a comprehensive portfolio of expertise and measurement techniques designed to solve real life monitoring problems. NPL offers a complete range of solutions from long-term routine point sampling to state-of-the-art atmospheric surveys using remote sensing techniques such as differential absorption lidar. NPL’s unique combination of staff and equipment make it one of the premier environmental measurement facilities in Europe. All measurements undertaken are of the highest quality and underpinned by accurate calibration techniques with traceability to international standards.
NPL undertake measurements for:
– Atmospheric research and large scale international monitoring campaigns involving balloon, ground based and airborne instrumentation.
– Pollution monitoring including air quality, stack and fugitive emissions.
– Bespoke monitoring provision for industrial clients, for example long term boundary fence monitoring, sampling of emissions from bulk tanker operations and offshore measurements.
– Ground based monitoring of the stratosphere.
– Monitoring diffuse sources such as landfill using open-path and remote sensing techniques.
NPL has carried out measurements of greenhouse gases for government and industry. We recently completed a TSB sponsored project, ‘C Save’ ( Carbon Storage: assessment and validation of emissions) with BP and Signal Group to develop new instrumentation for measurement of carbon dioxide losses and emissions.
In 2012 we launched The Centre for Carbon Measurement based at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), to build on our international reputation in measurement for climate change research, technology development and environmental monitoring. The Centre is working with partners to reduce uncertainties in climate data and provide the robust measurement that is required to account for, price and trade carbon emissions. It also helps accelerate the development and adoption of low carbon technologies.