This project aims to embed engineering digitalisation tools on the design of cluster-based Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) technologies. To deliver the UK Net Zero targets on time, at pace and scale, we need to transition from a conventional knowledge-based process design to a data-driven design which embraces all the possibilities that data science and digitalisation have to offer. This approach will accelerate the successful decarbonisation of the UK Industrial Clusters as it will help laying the foundations for cost-effective process design and control of CCUS projects.

The ultimate objective of the project is to provide more accurate investment costs estimations as well as risk management strategies for safe and continuous solvent-based carbon capture operation. The project will develop an Augmented Engineering Review (AER) tool based on plants design data with accurate cost-models for design recommendation, hazard and operability assessments of carbon capture plants. This tool will be implemented and will extend the value-chain platform developed in the IDRIC project MIP 6.1 Accelerating the deployment of cost-competitive advanced carbon capture technologies for industrial decarbonisation, for cluster-based design of solvent-based carbon capture technologies. Building upon the PrISMa project and MIP 6.1 accelerating the deployment of cost-competitive advanced carbon capture technologies for industrial decarbonisation, Heriot-Watt University is partnering with Solverlo Ltd. to further extend its proprietary AER tool for the design of amine-based carbon capture processes.