Venue: TBC, Riga, Latvia
Conference Chair: Mayur Pal, KTU, Lithuania
Secretary: Viltė Karaliūtė, KTU, Lithuania
Advisory group : NGCCUS
Steering group : BASRECCS Board
Summary
The aim of the BCF-2023 project is to prepare, arrange and report the BASRECCS regional conference “BCF Baltic Carbon Forum 2023” which will be held in October. The BCF is part of BASRECCS’ long-term strategy to foster full-scale development of the climate change mitigation technologies carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) in the Baltic Sea Region. The aim is to enable interested and engaged stakeholders to meet, discuss, share knowledge and experiences, and develop projects. The BCF will invite network members and other relevant experts, stakeholders and interested persons to be a speakers of BCF 2023.
DAY 1: October 12
8:00am-9:00am: Conference registration and breakfast
9:00am-9:15am: Opening ceremony and welcome address
9:15am-10:00am: Keynote speaker. Possibly 2 Keynote speakers
10:00am-10:30am: Coffee break
10:30am-12:30pm: Session 1: State of CCUS in Nordic and Baltics
12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm-3:30pm: Sessions 2: Carbon Capture and Storage in the Industrial Sector (Pilots or active projects etc.)
3:30pm-4:00pm: Coffee break
4:00pm-5:30pm: Sessions 3: Helsinki Convention, Policy Updates, Public Perception
5:30pm-6:30pm: Session 4: Networking reception + Student Poster Presentation
7:30 – 9:30pm: Conference Dinner
DAY 2: October 13
9:00am-9:30am: Keynote speaker 2:
9:30 – 10:30 am : Session 5 : Commercialization and Business models for CCS
10:30am-11:00am: Coffee break
11:00am-12:30pm: Session 6: Recent advances in CCS (Research/Academia)
12:30pm-1:00pm: Closing ceremony and next steps
1:00pm-2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm-5:00pm: Short Course
DAY 2: October 13
Short Course on Recent developments in CCUS implementation and research, with focus on Baltic Sea Region
Date: October 13 - Day 2
2:00pm-5:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Alla Shogenova and Dr. Auli Niemi
Course Content
A) Developments in strategic, political and regulatory issues
B) Site characterization and modeling
The lecture will discuss (i) recent findings from one of the few European CO2 pilot injections (Heletz, Israel) as well as (ii) addresses the issue dynamic modeling of CO2 storage with examples from the Baltic Sea Region.
Coffee break: 15 min
C) Tecno-economic aspects of CCUS clusters and hubs