Demonstrating carbon capture capabilities
C-Capture Ltd has been awarded funding through Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund to support experiments that quantify the compatibility of C-Capture’s carbon capture technology with the requirements of the glass manufacturing industry.
C-Capture was supported in its application by Pilkington United Kingdom Ltd. The experiments will assess the feasibility of deploying carbon capture technology on-site at Pilkington and are considered an important step forward in decarbonising glass manufacture.
Based in Leeds, C-Capture is developing what will be the world’s most energy efficient- processes for the capture of carbon dioxide. It has patented a low cost technology that uses up to 40% less energy than current commercially available technologies.
The technology uses a class of capture solvents that are amine- and nitrogen-free, are not classified as hazardous, are inexpensive and could be manufactured on a large scale from biological sources.
Emissions from the glass manufacturing industry have traditionally posed technological challenges as they contain high levels of impurities that prevent the utilisation of existing technologies.
During this project, C‑Capture will build upon existing data and expose the solvent to representative flue gases found during the glass manufacturing process, as the next step to prove the applicability of C‑Capture technology to capturing CO2 from heavy industrial waste gases.
