Supporting the electricity system
By making fossil fuel based electricity production more flexible
sCO2 based technology has the potential to meet EU objectives for highly flexible and efficient conventional power plants, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, residue disposal and, above all, water consumption.
What sCO2flex does ?
Flexibility & Efficiency
Increase in the operational flexibility and in the efficiency of existing and future fossil fuel power plants
Competitiveness
Build European expertise on sCO2 for electricity generation
Sustainability
Mitigating fossil fuel plants’ environmental impact.
Help to integrate energy of renewable sources.
Our Objectives
1- Technical
To define and simulate future fossil fuel power plants’ work-flows and scenarios for advanced and complex flexible demand operations with massive renewable integration in the network…
2- Economic
Enabling market uptake and industrial deployment of sCO2 Brayton cycle from 2025 to establish sCO2 Brayton cycle as optimal fossil fuel power plants’ solution in terms of costs through optimized design and components’ integration…
3- Environmental
Mitigating fossil fuel plants’ environmental impact and foster sCO2 technology’s acceptance to reduce water consumption by 100% by avoiding the use of water in the thermodynamic cycle loop/heat rejection section with air-cooling and thus enabling geographical flexibility.
Consortium
sCO2-FLEX is an industry based consortium made up of 10 recognised and experienced key players from 5 different EU member states
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Newsletter – 5 – 2021
Download the web version Sco2flex Newsletter 5– 2021 5 – 2021 Newsletter sCO2flex: making electricity production more flexible SCO2-Flex Final…
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5th sCO2European Conference in Prague in 2023
The 5th European sCO2 Conference will be hosted in Prague on 14-16 March 2023. The call for abstracts will open…
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New sCO2flex Results video released!
As the sCO2-flex project comes to a close, a short video has been developed to summarise the main goals and…
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SCO2-Flex Final Event: The Role of sCO2 cycles in Europe’s future energy system
On the 16th June 2021 the sCO2-flex project hosted its final event to present the results of the project and…
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sCO2flex Technology Brochure released!
The sCO2flex Technology Brochure brings together the key technical outputs of the project, outlining the key aspects of the Plan…
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R&D for flexible power generation: today’s and tomorrow’s challenges and pathways
Download the slides of the 7th and final episode the ETN webinar series dedicated to flexible power generation issues entitled “R&D…
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4th European SCO2 Conference
The 4th European sCO2 Conference in 2021 which focuses on supercritical carbon dioxide for energy systems took place online on…
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Check out ETN’s Business case for sCO2 Waste Heat Recovery System
Check out the report on ETN’s Business case for sCO2 Waste Heat Recovery System first released in October 2020. …
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Flexible Power Generation – ETN Webinar Series – 5th episode
“sCO2-flex. Adaptation of fossil-fuel power plants to the future energy system requirements”, the 5th episode of ETN’s webinar series on…
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sCO2flex at NENE 2020
sCO2flex partners at the REZ Research Center presented their paper on “Microstructural Evaluation of HR6W and T92 after Supercritical CO2…
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Newsletter – 4 – 2020
Download web version: Sco2flex Newsletter 4 – 2020 4 – 2020 Newsletter sCO2flex: making electricity production more flexible Register for the ETN…
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Flexible Power Generation – ETN Webinar Series – 4th episode
ETN collaborates with five EU Horizon 2020 projects, including Sco2flex, in a six-part webinar series designed to shed light on…
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Different paths towards Europe’s climate goals
On 19 November 2020, INEA, the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency of the European Commission, organised a coordination workshop, bringing…
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SCO2-Flex at GPPS Chania20: Online Conference
On the 7th-9th September, 2020, SCO2flex partners presented their paper Impact of volumetric system design on compressor inlet conditions in…
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Flexible Power Generation – ETN Webinar Series – 2nd episode
“FLEXnCONFU. Power-to-X-to-Power solutions for flexible, carbon-free and efficient energy generation”, the second episode of ETN’s new webinar series on Flexible Power…
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ETN launches new webinar series: “Challenges and opportunities for flexible power generation in the future energy scenario”
ETN collaborates with five EU Horizon 2020 projects, including Sco2flex, in a six-part webinar series designed to shed light on…
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Have you heard of the European sCO2 Research & Development Alliance?
The European sCO2 Research & Development Alliance aims at providing a platform for exchanging knowledge onsupercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) technologies…
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Newsletter – 3 – 2020
Download web version: Sco2flex Newsletter 3 – 2020 3 – 2020 Newsletter sCO2flex: making electricity production more flexible Woman in Science: Interview…
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Evaluation of Direct Air Cooled Heat Rejection Units for Supercritical CO2 Power Plants
Supercritical CO2 cycles (sCO2) are recognized as a promising solution for the exploitation of different energy sources: from fossil fuel…
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Woman in Science: Interview with Albannie Cagnac
To celebrate International Women’s day and highlight the success and importance of women in science, we decided to interview our…
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sCO2-Flex at SET Plan Action 6 Networking Event
Members of the sCO2-flex project will attend the SET Plan Action Action 6 conference on 4 December in Brussels to…
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sCO2flex at SolarPACES 2019
Sco2flex partners at POLIMI attended the SolarPACES conference in Daegu, South Korea in October 2019. SolarPACES has played a…
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sCO2-flex at ETIP SNET’s Western & South-eastern Regions’ Workshop in Paris
The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) in collaboration with Pôle MEDEE, Systematic and Think Smartgrids hosted a…
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New sCO2 project: sCO2-4-NPP launches in Paris
Just over a month ago, an innovative sCO2-based Heat removal technology for an increased level of safety of nuclear power…
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ETN October Workshop 2019
ETN’s biennial October Workshop took place on 1-2 October 2019 in Florence, Italy, hosted by Baker Hughes. Venue and agenda…
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3rd European Conference on Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) Power Systems
The third European Conference on Supercritical CO2 took place on 19 and 20 last September, with the forth scheduled in…
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New Paper on the Part-Load Operation Strategy of SCO2 Power Plants
sCO2-Flex partners at POLIMI release paper on the optimisation of the part-load Operation Strategy of sCO2 Power Plans. Supercritical CO2…
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Newsletter – 2 – 2019
Download web version: Sco2flex Newsletter 2 – 2019 2 – 2019 Newsletter sCO2flex: making electricity production more flexible 3rd European Conference…
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sCO2-Flex at ETN’s October Workshop
Members of the sco2flex project will be attending ETN’s annual High-Level User Meeting held on 30 September followed by ETN’s…
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Published sCO2-Flex reports
During the first 18 months of the project, the sco2-flex consortium has published a series of reports which highlight in…
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“The future energy system – meeting complexity with flexibility” Workshop recording available online
The EU has set ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve these goals, the share of renewable energy…
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Optimization of Flexible Supercritical CO2 Coal-Fired Power Plants
Coal-fired power plants play a major role in large scale power generation by producing about 41% and 25% of the…
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sCO2-Flex consortium meet in Milan to present latest progress
Consortium partners of the EU funded project sco2-flex met at the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) e on the 11th and…
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THREE EU PROJECTS INVITE YOU TO DISCUSS “The future energy system – meeting complexity with flexibility”
The EU has set ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve these goals, the share of renewable energy…
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New sCO2-Flex Infographic
sCO2-Flex has produced and easy to read info-graphic to help stakeholders and the wider public understand the main goals of…
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Save the Date: 26 June 2019 – Workshop – Meeting complexity with flexibility
Public workshop (open event) •Keynotes •Presentations of project results•Panel discussion with policy makers When? 26 June, 2019 Where? Press Club…
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3rd European Conference on Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) Power Systems in Paris
The 3rd European Conference on Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) Power Systems will be held on September 19 and 20, 2019, in Paris, France. The…
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Newsletter – 1 – 2018
Download web version: Sco2flex Newsletter 1 – 2018 1 – 2018 Newsletter sCO2flex: making electricity production more flexible Visit to…
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sCO2-Flex Project now on Video
New sCO2-flex video highlights the potential of conventional power plants to contribute towards Europe’s Energy Transition The EU has set…
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sCO2-Flex Project Leaflet available for download
Want a short guide into the sco2-flex project? You can now download an illustrated leaflet.
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sCO2-Flex at H2020 projects clustering workshop
sCO2Flex partners took part in the meeting of H2020 projects working on Carbon Capture Storage and Use, Alternative Fuels and…
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sCO2-Flex consortium visit to Řež Research Centre in Prague
Consortium partners of the EU funded project sco2-flex met at the Řež Research Centre in Prague on the 18th and 19th of…
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2nd European sCO2 Conference
The 2nd European sCO2 Conference was held at the Gesellschaft für Simulatorschulung mbH (GfS) and Kraftwerksschule eV (KWS) in Essen, Germany, on 30th-31st August 2018. It…
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Fostering sCO2 knowledge-sharing across continents
A Chinese delegation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences learns about sCO2-flex at the Institute of Nuclear Technology and Energy…
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sCO2-Flex in Modern Power Systems Magazine
A new article featuring sCO2-FLEX – an EU funded project that brings together key academic and industrial stakeholders to demonstrate…
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sCO2-Flex at U.S. sCO2 Symposium – March 2018
The 6th International Symposium has been held in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in March 27th-29th 2018. The first edition of the meeting…
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Upcoming sCO2 Events
sCO2 Flex Workshop on materials Organized by Rina-CSM, the meeting is to be held on July 11th 2018 in Rome…
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sCO2-Flex Social Media Channels Online!
Follow us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/sco2flex Join our linkedin group at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28157521
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EU project sCO2-Flex to make fossil fuels more flexible and environmentally friendly
Key players active in the fossil fuel industry will benefit from €5m EU funding via this Horizon2020 flagship project. sCO2-FLEX…
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