Carbon Capture

Carbon capture is set to play an increasingly important role in the decarbonising of energy supplies

Carbon Capture

With global energy demand forecast to increase over the coming years, there’s urgent need for means to remove emissions from established power generating technologies, while renewable energy supply increases to meet demand. Utilising BOC’s extensive experience with hydrogen and market position as the leading UK supplier of hydrogen, we are driving a number of exciting projects to scale carbon capture technology and use it to deliver low-carbon hydrogen to help fuel clean industrial growth.

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What is CCUS?

Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) technology is increasing amid growing demand to reduce emissions from the energy industry.

CCUS is a term used to describe various methods of trapping the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by burning fossil fuels, and either permanently storing or utilising it.

How does Carbon Capture (CCUS) work?

The carbon capture can take place at three main points in the separation cycle:

  • Pre-combustion carbon capture separates CO2 before the combustion of fuel
  • Oxygen combustion combusts the fuel with pure oxygen to create mainly steam and CO2, the carbon can then be easily separated and captured from the flue gas- gas otherwise exiting to the atmosphere via a flue
  • Carbon capture technology can also capture carbon post-combustion, a process where the CO2 is scrubbed from the flue gas following combustion.

Maximising the benefits of carbon capture

Whilst carbon capture technology is set to play a key role in enabling critical industrial practices and hard-to-abate sectors to continue operating amid the net zero transition, it also presents an opportunity to utilise captured carbon for a number of commercial uses.

Food grade CO2 can significantly aid food production and help alleviate supply crunches amid growing demand. Captured carbon can also be used for a range of industrial applications, from feedstock for the production of commodities such as methanol, to enhancing oil recovery.

Adding carbon capture technology to BOC’s Teesside hydrogen plant

BOC’s Teesside Hydrogen CO2 Capture Project is poised to develop the next generation of low-carbon hydrogen production innovation. The Teesside project, located in the North East of England, is part of the East Coast Cluster.

By adding carbon capture technology to one of the UK’s largest hydrogen production facilities, BOC will help put Teesside on the map for net zero technologies.

BOC’s Teesside Hydrogen CO2 Capture project has the potential to capture over 200,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, which will be sequestered under the North Sea.

The UK Government has shortlisted BOC’s carbon capture project, naming it as part of Phase 2 of the cluster sequencing process.

BOC’s Teesside Hydrogen CO2 Capture project

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