1) Sustainability Problem:
Excess CO2 contributing to a greenhouse effect and global warming.
Category: Energy
2) Technology Summary:
- A coal-fired power plant in southern India can now capturing carbon at industrial scale without subsidy
- Unlike the well known CCS process, the plant is converting captured storage into baking soda. This is known as Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU)
- CarbonClean, the inventor, has developed a new, more efficient chemical process which reduces operations and initial fixed costs
- CO2 capture capacity: 60,000 tons of CO2 per year
Article: Indian firm makes carbon capture breakthrough
Website: The Guardian
Tags: #CCS #CCU #technology #GHG
3) Organizational stakeholders
- Merchant power generators
- Utilities
- Chemical process raw material manufacturers
- Energy regulators
4) Steps in deploying this technology
- Identify wider customer base for CO2 chemical raw material
- Identify price at which CO2 can be profitably removed
- Attracting financing for this technology
- Expand production of the new CO2-stripping chemical
CarbonClean: http://www.carboncleansolutions.com/home
Uni: jz2805