Primary CCUS Area: CO2 Capture
Immaterial
For Industrial emitters a significant hurdle in their journey towards decarbonisation is the economic challenge (both high capex and opex) associated with existing and new carbon capture technologies. Immaterial have developed a technology solution which is economically viable and one that significantly reduces the need for heavy Government Subsidies to decarbonise industries.
Immaterial Ltd have pioneered a unique, patented technology platform that can densify any metal-organic framework material (MOF) by producing them as monolithic MOF (m-MOFs), increasing the volumetric capacity by 2X+, when compared to existing solid systems and traditional amines technology. The ability to capture more volume shrinks the footprint of the capture system, thereby unlocking significant capital cost reduction and lower operating costs vs alternative technologies.
Immaterial have developed a family of m-MOF materials, providing entire market coverage for carbon capture, from natural gas CCGT power plants to the production of steel, cement, refining, petrochemicals and other applications. These materials are chemically resistant to moisture, steam and acidic conditions. Immaterial’s new multi-tonne facility in Cambridge UK (operational from July 2025) will demonstrate economic viability and scalability of the densified m-MOFs using a green process, creating a sustainable supply chain.
Immaterial uses already proven at industrial scale swing adsorption systems, with novelty around materials and engineering integration into proven systems. This enables significant de-risking in scaling the technology. For hard to abate sectors, Immaterial has a solution that makes economic sense and enables customers to tap into IRA benefits in the US and avoid paying for carbon credits from the EU ETS platforms – translating an emissions problem into a profitable carbon capture operating margin.
Immaterial are successfully piloting its technology in Europe and are actively collaborating with customers to deploy pilot capture systems across a variety of sectors and regions to demonstrate the technology.
GE Vernova
GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.
DigiKerma
DigiKerma owns and operates the world’s first carbon credit trading platform for CCUS-derived offsets, CarbonKerma. CarbonKerma’s carbon credits are traded on blockchain for full transparency, represent the highest quality geologically sequestered credits available, and are sold with a 100% quality guarantee. With all tonnes identifiable by DigiKerma’s patent-pending Unique Carbon Tag (UCT) technology, CarbonKerma’s CCUS-derived credits are permanent, strictly measured, and regulated. DigiKerma is the global center of finance for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS), supporting the only scalable engineering solution available to reach our global Paris Accord goals.
DigiKerma’s blockchain-based trading platform removes all risk of double-counting, providing protection from reputational and business risk for emitters seeking to offset their unabatable emissions. All sequestered tonnes are measured by EPA or ISO approved meters. All credits onboarded undergo a strict verification and validation process.
Cool Planet Technologies
Cool Planet Technologies is a carbon capture company aiming to significantly reduce the cost of removing carbon dioxide from industrial flue gas emissions using a membrane-based technology. The process can be used across a wide range of industries and applications and can be flexibly configured from a few thousand to multi-millions of tonnes per annum (tpa).
The energy efficient solution can capture up to 99% of the carbon dioxide from a flue gas, exporting it as either a gas or liquid with a purity of 99.9%. The compact, modular process has a small footprint making it an ideal for both retrofit or new-build solutions. Operationally, the process is extremely flexible with rapid start-up, shut-down response and excellent turn up/down capability.
Cool Planet is working with Holcim to decarbonise their Höver cement plant near Hanover in Germany. The technology has been previously piloted in three coal-fired power station projects and a highly successful fourth pilot was completed at Höver in May as part the project there. A demonstration plant capable of capturing 10,000 tpa will commence operations in 2025.
The membrane used in Cool Planet’s process was developed by Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon, part of Germany’s largest research organisation. Cool Planet and Hereon are collaborating in the development, up-scaling, demonstration and commercialisation of the technology.
The investors in Cool Planet are Taranis Carbon Venture, ENI next, Neva SGR, Audacy Ventures, CRH Ventures and BlueScopeX.
CarbonCaaS SARL-S
CarbonCaaS is a Carbon Challenge Solution Provider to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to support their journey throughout the planning, the development, the financing, the regulatory compliance, the implementation and the management of GHG emission reduction or elimination projects.
The offered services along the chain of CO2 custody cover:
– Support in the elaboration of decarbonisation end-to-end concepts, e.g. elaboration of reduction initiatives, capturing solutions till offsetting/neutralisation options
– Validation of project regulatory compliance and convergence of private financing as well as government funding
– Management and administration of the CO2 certificate allowances, e.g. support in the annual emission level review to validate the company’s compliance and progress of reduction initiatives
– Management of the disposal of captured CO2, e.g. organizing, orchestrating or offering conveyance and disposal solutions
Strategically located in the heart of Europe, our multi-disciplined, multi-lingual engineering, consulting and execution team offers end-to-end support, to realize projects in a joint effort and in close coordination with the customer from the concept phase through to the successful implementation also covering on demand the operational support.
Carbon Engineering
Founded in 2009, Carbon Engineering (CE) has advanced technologies for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air around us for 15 years. From our Innovation Centre in Squamish, CE continues to evaluate large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) pathways and produce critical data that supports and validates commercial deployment underway today.
Today, the first commercial facility to use CE’s DAC technology, developed by 1PointFive, is under construction in Texas and expected to begin commercial operations in mid-2025. Once fully operational, the facility – named STRATOS – is expected to be the largest in the world.
Carbon Clean
Carbon Clean is a leader in revolutionising carbon capture solutions for hard-to-abate industries including cement, steel, refineries, and energy from waste. The company’s patented technology significantly reduces the costs of carbon capture when compared to conventional solutions.
Carbon Clean has over a decade of experience in designing, building, and operating industrial carbon capture systems and it has 49 technology references around the world. The company is an innovation leader in the CCUS market, with over 100 active patent assets across 16 patent families covering 30 countries, and has developed a modular technology, CycloneCC, that is vital for scaling industrial carbon capture deployment to achieve global net zero targets.
Headquartered in the UK and with offices in the US and India, the company has received funding and grant support from the British and US governments and has established partnerships with industry leaders including Chevron and CEMEX. It is also an investor in the Swedish eFuel development company, Liquid Wind.
ABB Ltd
ABB is a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. The company’s solutions connect engineering know-how and software to optimize how things are manufactured, moved, powered and operated. Building on more than 130 years of excellence, ABB’s ~105,000 employees are committed to driving innovations that accelerate industrial transformation. www.abb.com
Every day, ABB technologies empower our customers to electrify, optimize and decarbonize their businesses and so ABB is playing a key role in enabling the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon energy economy.
ABB has been promoting energy efficiency for over 140 years. But today the energy transition is a strategic priority for ABB Energy Industries in the UK, Ireland and across the world. ABB’s electrification, automation and digitalization technologies are helping businesses to make life more sustainable as people continue to move, produce, work and live.
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ABB CCS 360
ABB CCS 360 digital twin can optimize operations, predict potential challenges, improve safety and create scale in deployments. Discover more here
ABB technologies will continue to help ramp up decarbonization projects ahead of the UK and EU’s legally binding 2050 net zero commitments.
7CO2
7CO2: The Severnside Carbon Capture and Shipping Hub Ltd is a CCS hub with the objective, enshrined in its Articles, of helping regional decarbonisation through the development of the common infrastructure necessary for Non Pipeline Transport of CO2 captured by regional emitters in the South West of the UK.
It will be the regional CCS hub for onward shipment of CO2 to geological storage and will work with local public and private sector businesses to decarbonise the wider cluster through the use of CCS, hydrogen, ‘efuels’ and green heat and power that the introduction of CCS at the hub will enable.
It will store and ship both locally captured CO2, piped to Bristol Port from large local emitters, and CO2 railed to 7CO2 from regional emitters.
7CO2 itself will develop the pipelines to local emitters, liquefaction, CO2 storage and railhead facilities to collect, store and load CO2, together with the ship loading capability at Bristol Port.
In aggregate, 7CO2 has the potential to capture over 8MTCO2pa from regional emitters for onward shipment. It already has MOUs in place with a large number of emitters who have the intention of installing CCS plant.
A high percentage of the CO2 that will be processed by 7CO2 will be biogenic, coming from energy from waste plants. Together with 7CO2’s land options and abundant regional power, 7CO2 has the potential to help develop ‘efuels’ at scale, including hydrogen, emethanol and SAF to increase investment in, and decarbonisation of, the region.