The AURORA Stakeholder Forum (StF) plays a pivotal role in guiding AURORA’s development and advising on key next steps to accelerate market adoption of our CO2 capture technology. Our goal is to advance CO2 capture technologies to the point of commercial deployment, driving innovation and ensuring the scalability of our solutions.

AURORA’s strategy includes optimizing and qualifying the CESAR1 solvent and associated CO2 capture process, positioning our technology as a highly competitive alternative to the conventional MEA-based benchmark.

To ensure that our solution is applicable across industries, we will conduct full CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage) chain assessments. These assessments will take a holistic approach, considering large-scale applications in diverse industrial clusters. As part of this, we will complete conceptual studies tailored to four key CO2-intensive end-users of AURORA.

Key Objectives of the Stakeholder Forum:

• Provide guidance for AURORA’s ongoing developments.
• Offer expert advice on the next steps for accelerating the uptake of capture technologies.
• Support the strategic direction of AURORA’s technology roadmap to drive market adoption.

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What would be your role?

• Participate actively in discussions concerning AURORA’s implementation and issues related to the project’s impact
• Contribute to knowledge sharing, dissemination and exploitation of project results
• Will not receive confidential information.
• Will only be invited to an “open” part of the project meetings (an online option will also be available) held every 6 months and to public dissemination and exploitation events organized by the AURORA consortium.

No member will receive any money from the project, but members will learn more about the AURORA project, be quickly informed of the results, and be able to take part in discussions on project-related topics.

Are you eligible?

The aim is to have at least 20 members and at least 1 member representing each of the key operating sectors identified: 1) Refining, gas processing and H2 production, 2) Cement, 3) Materials recycling, 4) WtE, 5) Steel, 6) Alumina, 7) Non-ferrous metals, 8) Sustainable biofuel production, 9) Cluster and other CO2-related associations, and 10) Capture technology developers and CO2-related associations. Sustainable biofuel production, 9) Clusters and other CO2-related associations, and 10) Capture technology developers and EPCs.

Want to join? Follow this procedure:

1. Contact our project manager Hanne Kvamsdal (hanne.kvamsdal@sintef.no) to apply for StF membership.
2. All project partners will give their approval within two weeks.
3. If accepted by the consortium, the potential new StF member will be asked to sign a letter of commitment (LoC).
4. On receipt of the signed LoC, the contact person(s) will have access to a dedicated sharing point and will be invited to the next project meeting.