Joint Workshop: Industrial Decarbonization through bioenergy and CO2 capture and storage

Start date 2026-10-07 13:30

End date 2026-10-07 17:00

Time: 7:30-11:00 EDT/13:30-17:00 CEST

Platform: MS TEAMS kindly provided by ESMIA Consultants Inc.

Moderator: Etienne Bernier, Natural Resources Canada

Join the meeting: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/260783580348369?p=7TMSWFqOqgKFG4QHY3

Agenda: Available in pdf format

The workshop is co-organized by two IEA Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCP): the IETS TCP and the Energy Technology Analysis System Programme (ETSAP TCP). The workshop is part of a series that intends to foster dialogue between modelers and technologists with respect to specific industrial decarbonization technologies and themes. This will provide modelers with an opportunity to review their modelling assumptions for the industrial sector, and technologists with an opportunity to better grasp the context affecting the evolving attractiveness of specific industrial decarbonization technologies. This follows up an initial workshop held on April 10, 2025 , and the first workshop of the current series on December 1, 2025 (petrochemicals, synfuels and CCU).

Agenda

  • 7:30 EDT/13:30 CEST: Welcome Address
    • Kathleen Vaillancourt
      ETSAP TCP Operating Agent and Founder and President of ESMIA Consultants, Canada
    • Johanna Mossberg
      IETS TCP Chair and Head of Bioeconomy Arena at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
  • 7:45 EDT/13:45 CEST: TIMES Crash Course
    Speaker: Florian Pedroli, ESMIA Consultants Inc.

    • Basics of the TIMES modelling platform
  • 7:55 EDT/13:55 CEST: Modelling basics for carbon removal through industrial BECCS
    Speaker: Etienne Bernier, Natural Resources Canada
  • 8:00 EDT/14:0 CEST: Short presentations on CCS and BECCS
    • 8:00 EDT/14:05 CEST: Jitka Hrbek
      IEA Bioenergy Task 33 Leader. Senior Scientist, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna (Austria)
      Biochar as a Carbon Storage Solution: Insights from IEA Bioenergy
    • 8:20 EDT/14:20 CEST: José Ignacio Linares
      Full Professor, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain)
      The role of HYBECCUS in industrial decarbonization: application to refining and biomethanol production
    • 8:40 EDT/14:40 CEST: Simon Moser
      Key Researcher, Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz (Austria)
      Overview of IETS Task XXI Subtask “Carbon Capture in Industry”
  • 8:50 EDT/14:50 CEST: 10-15 minutes break
  • 9:05 EDT/15:05 CEST: Short presentations on CCS and BECCS focusing on Steel and Cement
    • 9:05 EDT/15:05 CEST: James Glynn
      Founder CEO, Energy Systems Modelling Analytics Limited (Ireland)
      Modelling Zero Carbon Steel Manufacturing in the United States
    • 9:25 EDT/15:25 CEST: Daniele Ferrario
      Post-Doc Researcher, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
      Evaluating costs and environmental performance of CO2 capture for heavy industry application: a comparison between calcium looping and amine scrubbing
    • 9:45 EDT/15:45 CEST: Abdul’Aziz Aliyu
      Technology Analyst, IEAGHG (United Kingdom)
      CCS and Bioenergy Pathways for Industrial Decarbonisation: Insights from IEAGHG Steel and Cement Studies
  • 10:00 EDT/16:00 CEST: Open Discussion
    Moderator: Anna Krook-Riekkola, ETSAP
  • 10:55 EDT/16:55 CEST: Concluding remarks
  • 11:00 EDT/17:00 CEST: End of workshop