Although research has been conducted into carbon capture and storage for 40 years, there is still a need to refine the technology to make it as energy efficient as possible.
Although research has been conducted into carbon capture and storage for 40 years, there is still a need to refine the technology to make it as energy efficient as possible. This is, not least, the case now, as carbon capture and storage has become an important element in the Government’s climate programme, in which it is assessed that carbon capture has the potential to reduce CO2 by up to 4-9 million tonnes by 2030.
At DTU, researchers have for some time been researching and testing how to capture CO2 from flue gas from CHP plants or from biogas plants instead of just emitting it. The most widely used method is to capture the CO2 from the flue gas and channelling it into a liquid. This is an efficient—but also highly energy-consuming—method.
Now researchers from DTU are ready to test a new and more energy-efficient method that can capture the CO2 in a solid material and upgrade it to a cleaner product, which can subsequently be used to produce, for example, fuels.
Read more at: Technical University of Denmark
