Notable Cement Carbon Capture Projects Around the World
Country: Norway
Region: Europe
Location: Heidelberg Materials Cement Plant, Brevik, around 160km south of Oslo map..
Project Highlights:
- With its goal of capturing 400,000 tons of CO2 annually, Breviks CCS will be the world's first large-scale carbon capture and storage initiative in the cement production industry.
- Utilizes a range of alternative fuels, including both non-hazardous and hazardous waste materials, as substitutes for traditional fossil fuels in the cement kiln, generating the necessary heat for cement production while safely destroying harmful substances.
- Part of Norwegian government funded Longship initiative, a project funded by the Norwegian government that also encompasses carbon capture at the Hafslund Oslo Celsio waste-to-energy facility.
Stakeholders: Heidelberg Materials, Norwegian Government
Carbon Capture Technology: Aker Carbon Capture's amine absorption technology
C02 Capture Capacity: 400,000 tons of CO2 per year
Storage Location: Northern Lights CO2 subsea storage facility located offshore from Øygården, near Bergen on the west coast of Norway. 2.6 km depth in the Johansen formation south of the Troll field.
C02 Storage Capacity: 1.5 milliones tonnes per year
CO2 Transportation: By tanker from port facility at the Brevik plant, to Øygården, then by pipeline for permanent subsea storage
Project Status: Currently in the installation phase, with mechanical completion targeted by the end of 2024
See also : The Northern Lights Project
Background Links:
- Brevik CCS Website - BrevikCCS.com (brevikccs.com)
- The Northern Lights Project - Equinor.com (equinor.com)
- Key Projects - AkerCarbonCapture.com (akercarboncapture.com)
- Brevik Cement Plant - HeidelbergMaterials.com (sement.heidelbergmaterials.no)
- Norwegian government confirms funding for Heidelberg Materials Sement Norge's Brevik Carbon Capture Project - Global Cement (globalcement.com)
- Northern Lights Storage - NorLights.com (norlights.com)
- Nothern Lights - World's's First Ever Cross-Border, Open-Source CO2 Transport and Storage Infrastructure Network - International Energy Agency (iea.org)
- About the Longship Project - NorLights.com (norlights.com)
Recent News:
- 'We're still in the 1970s with cement': Norway plant to blaze carbon-free concrete trail - theguardian.com - Aug-24
Country: Germany
Location: Heidelberg Materials' Ennigerloh Plant
Project Highlights:
- LEILAC - Low Emissions Intensity Lime and Cement - is a method of cement manufacture in the limestone is heated in a special reactor, keeping it apart from the fossil fuels combusted to generate the intense heat required
- By keeping the limestone separate from the fuel, the CO2 produced by the chemical reactions in the calcination process, the so-called 'process emissions', are kept apart from the combustion gases, a mix of mostly CO2 and the nitrogen in the air in which the combustion takes place.
- By separating the process emissions from the combustion emissions, a high-purity CO2 stream is produced which does not require further separation before capture, greatly simplifying the CO2 capture process without the energy requirements and high costs associated with other carbon capture technologies.
- This type of CO2 capture, where the CO2 does not have to be separated from a mix of other gases, is known as 'Direct Separation' technology.
- Technology developed by Calix
- LEILAC-2 is a scaled-up successor to the original LEILAC pilot project at the Heidelberg cement plant in Lixhe, Belgium, which tested the Direct Separation technology and concluded in 2019.
- The LEILAC programme is supported by the EU's Horizon 2020 fund
Stakeholders: EU's Horizon 2020 fund, Heidelberg Materials, Calix
Background Links:
- The LEILAC-1 pilot plant: from proof of concept to ongoing R&D (leilac.com)
- LEILAC-2 - A new and improved design and revised timeline - leilac.com (leilac.com)
- LEILAC - Pioneering technology offers a cleaner future for cement (cinea.ec.europa.eu)
- LEILAC-2 location confirmed at Heidelberg Materials' cement plant in Ennigerloh, Germany - calix.global (calix.global)
- LEILAC-2 Demonstration Scale - cordis.europa.eu (cordis.europa.eu)
- Project LEILAC - calix.global (calix.global)
- LEILAC: Cheap, efficient carbon capture for the cement & lime industries - imperial.ac.uk (imperial.ac.uk)
Country: United Kingdom
Region: North Wales
Location: Heidelberg Materials Cement, Padeswood map..
Stakeholders: Heidelberg Materials UK
Carbon Capture Technology: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Advanced KM CDR Process™, utilizing KS-21™ solvent
C02 Capture Capacity: 800,000 tonnes annually
Storage Location: Captured CO2 to be integrated into the HyNet North West carbon hub and transported via pipeline to be injected into depleted gas fields under the seabed in Liverpool Bay.
Project Status: Planning phase
Background Links:
- Padewood CCS - padeswoodccs.co.uk (padeswoodccs.co.uk)
- Hynet North West Carbon Hub - hynet.co.uk (hynet.co.uk)
- UK's first carbon capture cement production site takes step forward (eic-uk.co.uk)
- Lord Callanan visits Padeswood to learn more about plans to create the UK's first net-zero cement works - worldcement.com (worldcement.com)
Recent News:
- Heidelberg Materials to launch UK's first net zero cement facility at Flintshire - globalcement.com - Jul-24
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