Glass Futures has partnered with C-Capture, developers of world-leading chemical processes for carbon dioxide removal, and secured GBP 1.7 million in funding from the BEIS GBP 1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP). The funding is part of the GBP 20 million Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) Innovation 2.0 programme aimed at accelerating the deployment of next-generation CCUS technology in the UK.
C-Capture will use the funding to finance a major, national GBP 2.7 million project as a critical step in the race to net zero. Their pioneering project, XLR8 CCS, will prove that C-Capture’s next generation carbon capture solvent is compatible with real-world industrial emissions, which are major contributors to global carbon levels.
The multi-industry, multi-million-pound project will see C-Capture’s unique, next-generation carbon capture technology deployed on numerous sites across the country—within industries that are particularly difficult to decarbonise—demonstrating that a low-cost, carbon capture technology is a credible solution in the fight against climate change.
The compatibility of C-Capture’s unique, solvent-based technology will be trialled and assessed with real-world flue gas across three hard-to-abate sectors – at sites owned by project partners Hanson Cement, part of the Heidelberg Group, Bioenergy Infrastructure Group (BIG), Glass Futures and one of their member sites Pilkington UK Ltd – in conjunction with leading consulting and engineering company, Wood.
The project will deliver feasibility studies and deploy carbon capture solvent compatibility units (CCSCUs) across the cement and Energy from Waste (EfW) and – in a world first – the glass industry.
All three industries are particularly challenging to decarbonise due to the level and type of impurities in their flue gas emissions. The success of the XLR8 CCS project will benefit UK industry by making a credible, low-cost technology a reality in the route to decarbonisation within these sectors.