ConsenCUS achieves breakthrough in CO2 capture
A milestone in ConsenCUS: at the Aalborg Portland cement plant (Denmark), the first CO2 was captured with the electrochemical CO2 capture installation that completed the project.
Milestone
This week, the ConsenCUS project reached a fantastic milestone: at the Aalborg Portland (DK) cement plant, the first CO2 was successfully captured using the project's electrochemical CO2 capture unit. The custom-built electrochemical stacks being demonstrated have never before been used on this scale for this application. It's "cold CO2 capture," and that's just the beginning. The final technical hurdles were tackled on-site by a team consisting of WETSUS postdoc Sara Vallejo Castaño, DTU process engineers István Györbiró and Magor Demeter, and Ammongas lead engineer Tim Nærvig.
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Within ConsenCUS (Carbon Neutral Clusters through Electricity-based Innovations in Capture, Conversion, Usage, and Storage), an innovative way to capture and reuse CO2 is being designed and tested. By capturing and reusing fossil CO2, ultimately less fossil CO2 is emitted. By using the ConsenCUS method, renewable electricity can be used as the feedstock for this process, making the capture process more efficient and cleaner than conventional methods. This way, we are working to reduce our CO2 emissions to combat climate change.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101022484. This page reflects the views only of the author, and the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), under the powers delegated to it by the European Commission, is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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