A new era has begun as Tata Chemicals Europe officially opened the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant.
According to the company, this signals a key milestone in the race to meet the UK’s net-zero targets.
The £20 million (€23.5 million) investment has been completed by Northwich-based Tata Chemicals Europe, one of Europe's leading producers of sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate.
The plant will capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year - the equivalent to taking over 20,000 cars off the roads and reduces TCE’s carbon emissions by more than 10%.
The project will help unlock the future of carbon capture in the UK as it demonstrates the viability of the technology to remove carbon dioxide from power plant emissions and to use it in high end manufacturing applications.
Carbon capture
In a world-first, carbon dioxide captured from energy generation emissions is being purified to food and pharmaceutical grade and used as a raw material in the manufacture of sodium bicarbonate, which will be known as Ecokarb®.
This innovative process is patented in...
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