ACERT

Scope

ACERT is a Hovyu-led project that brings three Dutch technologies together at a waste-to-energy site to make CO₂ capture cheaper, more efficient and viable at smaller scale. At its core, Hovyu demonstrates the Hyperion process with its containerized pilot on real flue gas at an HVC waste-to-energy plant. Alongside it, TNO develops an on-line solvent-monitoring system and Encontech integrates an isobaric-expansion engine to recover low-grade waste heat. Together these target lower cost and footprint and open up the "small-scale" segment (below ~100 ktCO₂/year) where conventional capture is uneconomic.

Main targets

• Validate Hyperion's reduced energy demand and footprint against the CESAR1 benchmark, and confirm solvent stability across a 6-month campaign on real industrial flue gas.
• Demonstrate continuous, 24/7 on-line solvent monitoring.
• Recover low-grade heat to cut the process's parasitic loads and improve overall efficiency.
• Quantify the resulting cost reduction, advancing Hyperion and the monitoring system to TRL 6.

Hovyu's activities

As coordinator, Hovyu leads project management and the Hyperion demonstration: preparing the test site, building the experimental programme from the plant's real flue-gas conditions, operating the containerized pilot, and analysing the results. Hovyu also hosts the on-line monitoring and energy-recovery equipment in its pilot and contributes to the techno-economic evaluation.