Welcome to the official web site of the Spanish R&D Project “CENIT CO2”. The objective of the project is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere through the development of energy efficieny and CO₂ capture, storage and valorisation technologies.

The CENIT Programme

The CENIT Programme (Spanish abbreviation for “National Strategic Consortia for Technical Research”) is included in the Ingenio 2010 Programme and is an initiative of the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI). The CENIT Programme offers financing to large integrated research industrial projects with strategic nature and large technical and scientific scope. The granted projects must be oriented towards a planned research in innovative technological areas and with potential international projection. Their objective is the creation of new knowledge that might be useful for the development of new products, processes or services or for the integration of technologies of strategic interest, contributing this way to a better technological positioning of the Spanish productive network.

The CENIT CO2 Project

The National Strategic Consortium for CO₂ Technical Research (Spanish abbreviation for CENIT CO2) is one of the projects granted by CDTI and is integrated in the Energy and Environment Technological Area. It was presented in the CENIT 2005 Programme Call and was approved in the Resolution of May 30, 2006. Its main objective is the research, development and validation of new knowledge and integrated solutions for increasing the efficiency in CO₂ reduction processes. Consequently, Spanish industrial research projects are promoted with the aim of accelerating the development of advanced technologies that might lead to promising competitive advantages for Spanish companies and industries. The consortium is leaded by ENDESA Generación, with the relevant collaboration of UNIÓN FENOSA and the participation of other 12 industrial partners and 16 research institutions. The four-year project (2006-2009) accounts for a budget of 20 M€, from which 9.5 are granted by CDTI.