C-Capture Starts Europe's First Carbon Capture Trial In The Flat Glass Industry
C-Capture, developers of next generation technology for carbon dioxide removal, has begun Europe's first carbon capture trial on a mainstream flat glass manufacturing plant. The trial underway in St Helens, is at XLR8 CCS project partner's Pilkington UK glass manufacturing site. It is the first demonstration of a carbon-capture technology on an industrial flat glass furnace in Europe.
The trial forms part of the company's national project, ‘XLR8 CCS - Accelerating the Deployment of a Low-Cost Carbon Capture Solution for Hard-to-Abate Industries'. The project aims to demonstrate that a low-cost carbon capture solution is a reality for difficult-to-decarbonise industries in the race to net zero.
The compatibility of C-Capture's proprietary solvent-based technology will be assessed with a further five carbon capture trials from next year at sites owned by project partners Glass Futures, Heidelberg Materials and Energy Works Hull - in conjunction with leading consulting and engineering company, Wood. Carbon capture solvent compatibility units (CCSCUs) designed and built by C-Capture and Wood will be installed and operated on partners' sites.
Paul Skinner, Global R&D Portfolio Manager at NSG Group, said: "To have demonstrated at our Pilkington UK operation that carbon capture is indeed possible is a very exciting development and a key milestone in our decarbonisation technology journey, aiming towards our target of carbon neutral glass manufacture. It's been great to collaborate with the C-Capture and Glass Futures team in getting to this point, and we look forward to the further valuable learning we will gain from the rest of the XLR8 CCS project."
