CCS is a climate change technology that can prevent the emission of large quantities of CO2 in the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuels. Carbon capture and storage is a proven technology and has been in commercial operation for decades. There are three basic types of CO2 capture: pre-combustion, post-combustion and oxyfuel. Below you can find news related to the technology. If you wish to receive regular news in your inbox, then please subscribe to our newsletter.
RepAir has unveiled its field prototype, demonstrating the technical performance of its direct air capture solution in an operational environment for the first time. The company is now at Technology Readiness Level 6, a significant step forward on the path to market viability.
As published in Nature Communications, a team at Bayreuth University have developed a process to convert impure CO2 from car exhaust into γ-lactams. This opens the way to the synthesis of valuable chemicals and pharmaceuticals, says Prof. Dr. Shoubik Das, Chair of Organic Chemistry I
Commonwealth LNG has signed a MoU with OnStream CO2 LLC, a JV between Carbonvert Inc. and Castex Carbon Solutions, LLC, for a carbon capture and storage solution at Commonwealth’s 9.3 million tonnes per annum LNG facility under development in Cameron, Louisiana.
Dow has announced that its board of directors has declared Final Investment Decision on the Company’s Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero investment to build the world’s first net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives facility in Alberta, Canada.
Aker Carbon Capture is to investigate fully integrating a standardized and modularized Just Catch unit into the e-fuel process at a waste-to-energy facility, potentially capturing 100,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, enabling the initial production of 20 megawatt of e-methane.
On November 27th, 2023, Ministers from five European countries signed the Aaborg Declaration, acknowledging the important role for cross-border carbon capture, utilisation and storage as Europe aims to progress its green transition and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Find here some commonly asked questions about Carbon Capture and their answers
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon capture and sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it (carbon sequestration) for centuries or millennia. Usually the CO2 is captured from large point sources, such as coal-fired power plant, a chemical plant or biomass power plant, and then stored in an underground geological formation.
The aim is to prevent the release of CO2 from heavy industry with the intent of mitigating the effects of climate change. Although CO2 has been injected into geological formations for several decades for various purposes, including enhanced oil recovery, the long-term storage of CO2 is a relatively new concept.
Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) and CCS are sometimes discussed collectively as carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS). This is because CCS is a relatively expensive process yielding a product with an intrinsic low value (i.e. CO2). Hence, carbon capture makes economically more sense when being combined with a utilization process where the cheap CO2 can be used to produce high-value chemicals to offset the high costs of capture operations.
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