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CESAR aims for a breakthrough in the development of low-cost Post-Combustion CO2 capture technology in order to provide an economically feasible solution for both new large scale power plants and the retrofit of existing power plants which are responsible for the majority of all anthropogenic CO2 emissions (worldwide, approx. 5,000 power plants emit around 11 GtCO2/year).
With CESAR we focus on post-combustion capture as this is generally accepted to be the only option for the current technology and for retrofit in existing power plants. Moreover, analysis of the current R&D projects in Europe shows that there is yet no follow-up to the successful post-combustion work in the CASTOR project that will end in February 2008, while R&D aimed at other types of carbon capture technologies have already been accommodated for.
The project consortium consists of 22 partners from 11 EU countries.