Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is a highly efficient method for co-generating electricity and heat. With biomass feedstocks, CHP can be considered a renewable source. The capture of CO2 from biomass CHP presents an opportunity for carbon removal, aiding Europe's journey toward negative emissions.Challenges, including supply logistics, feedstock sustainability, and competition with other renewables like wind and solar, must be overcome to achieve cost-effective, low-emission, and decarbonized CHP from solid biomass residues. Additionally, issues like feedstock handling, combustion efficiency, emissions (NOx, SOx, particles), and economic feasibility hinder market development. The BioNETzero project's objective is to significantly advance three oxy-combustion technologies (oxy-MILD, CLC, and oxy-CFB). The project addresses these technical challenges through real-world testing, modelling, and the development of precise digital tools. Comprehensive regional showcase studies conducted by BioNETzero encompass technological, social, environmental, and economic dimensions. These advancements seek synergies with oxygen supply solutions such as cryogenic methods, alignment with the hydrogen economy, and utilization of solid oxygen carriers. Integration with flue gas cleaning and CO2 conditioning processes facilitates carbon removal, enabling the realization of nearly zero-emission biomass heating and biomass CHP systems, including carbon capture. One of BioNETzero's advantages lies in its regional focus, recognizing that deployment obstacles often arise at local levels. The project will assess its suite of solutions in regions in transition across Europe, and propose novel solutions for next generation CHP plants.

ECCSEL aims at gaining recognition as a world-class research infrastructure based within leading European Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) institutions and knowledge centres. It will be due for registration in 2015, forming a legal entity allocating efforts and resources to selected scientific and technological aspects of the CCS chain. ECCSEL will enable high-ranking researchers and scientists from all regions of Europe (and from third countries) to access state-of-the-art research facilities to conduct advanced technological research actions relevant to CCS. The proposed project aims to : • implement ECCSEL as a not-for-profit organisation consistent with the European Research Infrastructure Consortium legal framework ; • initiate operations of ECCSEL as a world-class CCS research infrastructure in accordance with the principles developed during the preparatory phase; • develop the research infrastructure to an upgraded common standard in terms of quality of services, management and access provision;