10th High-Temperature Solid Looping Cycles Network Meeting

Overview

Day 1 – 10th High-Temperature Solid Looping Cycles Network Meeting – 17th March 2026

The high-temperature solid looping cycles network (HTSLCN) meeting covers technology developments in fields where a solid material is cycled between multiple reactors at elevated temperatures. The scope of the IEAGHG HTSLCN is to discuss recent progress in solid looping cycles such as calcium looping and sorption enhanced reforming for selective CO₂ transport and chemical looping combustion and reforming with selective oxygen transport by the solids. It brings together well-known technologies used in fluid catalytic cracking, circulating fluidized beds and combined cycles, in new ways, to increase efficiencies and provide opportunities to decrease the carbon footprint of energy intensive processes.

Day 2 – CaLby2030 project – 2nd Dissemination event – 18th March 2026

CaLby2030 is a European project granted under Horizon Europe framework programme. The main goal is to act as enabling tool to achieve, by 2030, commercial deployment of Calcium Looping technology (CaL) using Circulating Fluidised Bed reactors.

CaLby2030 project presentations will focus on decarbonization in iron & steel industries and will include a site visit to Swerim’s CaL-CFB pilot plant, one of the project’s demonstration sites.

Registration

Registrations are available through the following links:

• If you want to participate both days or just on the first one, please click HERE
• If you want to participate just for day 2, please click HERE.

Please note that we will finalise the number of delegates on the 2^nd of March 2026. Please make sure to register before then.

Agenda

Tuesday 17th March 2026

High-Temperature Solid Looping Cycles Network

08:30 – 09:00 Registration of participants and coffee

09:00 – 09:05 Opening note
09:10 – 09:30 Utilizing high temperature furnace off-gases in biomass gasification: A pathway for efficient CO₂ utilization
09:30 – 09:50 Sorption-enhanced reverse water gas shift (COMAX)
09:50 – 10:10 Chemical looping for CO₂ purification

10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break

10:40 – 11:00 Novel Direct Air Capture System using Calcium Looping
11:00 – 11:20 Chemical looping CO₂ splitting over Mn-based perovskites and high-entropy perovskites enabled by industrial waste-gas utilisation
11:20 – 11:40 Sorption-enhanced gasification of residual biomass for high-purity hydrogen production with integrated CO₂ capture
11:40 – 12:00 Pilot demonstration of Integrated CFB Calcium Looping in Cement Plants

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:20 SEWGS technology de-risking
13:20 – 13:40 Scaling Chemical-Looping Combustion for Sustainable Waste-to-Energy Applications beyond 1 MW_th
13:40 – 14:00 Fate of HCl in Calcium Looping Systems: Operational Insights from the 1.7 MW_th La Pereda CFB Pilot Plant
14:00 – 14:20 NO_x Transformation and Reduction Kinetics in Calcium Looping Systems
14:20 – 14:40 Environmental performance of synthetic CO₂ sorbents for carbonate looping: an ex-ante LCA coupled with process modelling
14:40 – 15:00 Steady-state and transient modelling of calcium looping integrated with steelmaking processes

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 15:50 Integration of Calcium Looping and Solid Oxide Electrolysis for e-methanol production in steelmaking
15:50 – 16:10 Modeling and model development in novel solid looping projects
16:10 – 16:25 Evolution of the CO₂ carrying capacity of limestone in CaL systems
when exposed to HCl and SO₂ containing gases
16:25 – 16:45 Design of a Mobile Carbonate Looping Pilot Plant for On-Site CO₂ Capture from the Flue Gases of Various Industrial Plants
16:45 – 17:05 CO₂ and SO₂ capture in the copper production process
17:05 – 17:25 Calcium Looping based on CFB as a CO₂ Capture Technology for Modern Steelmaking – Engineering and Design of the TRL 6 Pilot Plant
17:25 – 18:00 Panel discussion and closing remarks

19:00 – 21:30 Bus pick-up for Dinner

*All timings are expressed in CET – Central European Time

Wednesday 18th March 2026

CaLby2030

08:30 – 09:00 Registration of participants and coffee

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome words from the host and the coordinator
09:10 – 09:30 Decarbonization pathways in iron & steel: an industrial perspective
09:30 – 09:50 Conceptual Design for First of a Kind (FOAK) Industrial Demonstration Projects
09:50 – 10:10 Pilot demonstration of CFB-CaL integrated in Steel industries
10:10 – 10:25 Carbon Transport & Storage: Optimisation tools for Multimodal Transport

10:25 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 11:00 Social acceptance of CCUS with focus in steel
11:00 – 11:30 EMPHATICAL project presentation
11:30 – 12:00 INITIATE project presentation

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Bus to Swerim + distribution of PPE

14:00 – 16:30 Visit to Swerim’s pilot

17:00 Bus drop-off at the airport and return to venue

*All timings are expressed in CET – Central European Time
 

Venue: Kulturens Hus

Name: Kulturens Hus

Address: Skeppsbrogatan 17, Luleå, Sweden

Kulturens hus is in downtown Luleå, just minutes from shops, entertainment, restaurants and accommodation. This modern cultural centre, located on Luleå’s northern harbour front, commands a beautiful view and is ideally equipped for conferencing. The complex houses the city library, an art gallery, large and small concert halls, multifunctional foyers on three levels, conference facilities, a café and a restaurant. For visitors, Luleå’s Tourism Office is conveniently located in Kulturens hus. Further information about the conference venue is available at www.kulturenshus.com.

You can find more information about Luleå, including the weather forecast through the following link: Welcome to Luleå!. Please keep an eye on the weather forecast and please make sure to bring weather-appropriate clothes.

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