PandORA

Scope

PandORA advances and benchmarks electrified CO₂ capture for hard-to-abate industries — especially cement and power — at TRL 5–7. When capture is powered by decarbonized electricity rather than fossil-fired heat, both the cost of capture and the reliance on fossil fuels fall. PandORA focuses deliberately on retrofittable solutions for fast, wide deployment, working along two innovation pillars: electrified amine-based capture (e-CESAR1 and Hyperion) and electrified oxyfuel calcining, supported by auxiliary innovations for lower emissions and better CO₂ quality.

Main targets

• Benchmark electrified capture technologies against each other and against conventional capture, with an electricity-intensity target in the range of ~400 kWhₑ per tonne of CO₂.
• Reduce amine emissions to below 100 ppb.
• Validate electrodialysis-based solvent reclaiming at industrially relevant scale.
• Assess hybrid and fully electrified calciner concepts for cement.

Hovyu's activities

Hovyu contributes its Hyperion electrified capture technology. A highlight of the project is the first Hyperion pilot campaign on real cement flue gas at a CEMEX plant, run with Hovyu's mobile pilot. Hovyu also performs the techno-economic assessment across use cases, optimizes the Hyperion solvent formulation, and works on CO₂ conditioning — helping identify the settings where electrified capture is most cost-competitive.