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New technologies that capture and recycle carbon dioxide from industrial processes such as steel and cement making will be vital if the EU is to meet its goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and down to zero by 2050. However, while solutions are emerging, more work is needed in order to roll them out at scale, experts say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Some of the biggest polluters \u2014\u00a0the steel, cement and chemicals industries that account for more than two-thirds of all industrial carbon dioxide emissions in the EU \u2014\u00a0have already made some progress,\u00a0cutting emissions by nearly 30% between 1990 and 2018<\/a>. This was in part thanks to the EU\u2019s flagship climate policy \u2014\u00a0the\u00a0Emissions Trading System<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which follows the \u2018polluter pays\u2019 principle, in which certain industries pay for a (capped) emissions allowance for each tonne of CO2-equivalent they inject into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

This approach has tried to disincentivise the use of fossil fuels by charging a little bit for emissions \u2014 but it isn\u2019t enough and it isn\u2019t fast enough, says Stuart Haszeldine, professor of carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh, UK.<\/p>\n

\u2018The policies we’ve got at the moment are good for starting off on the journey, but they \u2026 definitely don’t get to the end point of the journey. There are ways of achieving these goals, but we haven’t been bold enough to do them.\u2019<\/p>\n

Instead of dealing with the messy output, the cleanest way to cutting greenhouse emissions is to use renewable electricity as the main energy source \u2014\u00a0but this isn\u2019t always feasible. Planting trees to suck up carbon from the atmosphere could be another crucial piece of the puzzle, but it\u2019s a slow and steady kind of solution, one that will take years and scale, to bring meaningful change.<\/p>\n

Capture and store<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps the single most critical ingredient to meeting the\u00a0Paris Agreement<\/a>\u2019s covenant to limit global warming to \u2018well below\u2019 2\u00b0C compared to pre-industrial levels is proven industrial technology designed to capture and store CO2 before it is emitted into the atmosphere, says Prof. Haszeldine.<\/p>\n

This could be done by mandating carbon-intensive industries to progressively invest in storing and\/or recycling a percentage of the CO2 they produce, he suggested.<\/p>\n

The cement industry, for instance, produces more than 4 billion tonnes of product each year, accounting for around\u00a08% of global CO2 emissions<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0but only a third of its emissions emanate from the use of fuel for power, which means switching to renewable energy isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

The bulk of its emissions are intrinsically linked to the process for producing clinker, one of the main ingredients in cement.<\/p>\n

To make the production of most widely used construction material greener, projects like\u00a0CLEANKER<\/a>\u00a0are testing in an industrial setting the applicability of capturing CO2 released during the cement production process. CLEANKER uses so-called calcium looping technology, which uses calcium oxide-based sorbents to capture CO2 at high temperatures.<\/p>\n

The technology has the potential to harness more than 90% of the CO2 produced in a cement plant, says Riccardo Cremona, who is working with researchers from\u00a0Politecnico di Milano, a university in Italy, on the CLEANKER\u00a0project.<\/p>\n

A key hurdle to adoption is the expense \u2014 the cost of implementing such technology is the same order of magnitude of building a cement plant itself, so it is inconvenient for producers at the moment. But if the Paris Agreement and 2050 goals are to be met, he said, \u2018we have to adopt this technology \u2026 carbon capture will be fundamental for big industries that want to be carbon-free.\u2019<\/p>\n

Once CO2 has been captured, it can be compressed into liquid state and can then be pumped underground to replenish, for instance, depleted oil and gas reservoirs or coalbeds.<\/p>\n

Recycled<\/strong><\/p>\n

The captured CO2 could also be recycled to produce other products of value, which was the goal of the recent\u00a0Carbon4PUR<\/a>\u00a0project. The aim, says project coordinator Dr Liv Adler from the polymer company\u00a0Covestro Deutschland, was to demonstrate and evaluate whether it’s technically possible, economically feasible and sustainable to recycle steel mill gases that contain CO2 and carbon monoxide into intermediate compounds that can be used to produce insulation boards or wood coatings.<\/p>\n

The project has delivered promising results, demonstrating the ability to convert steel mill gas mixtures into intermediate compounds for plastic polymers called polyurethanes, but Dr Adler says this type of technology is only part of the solution \u2014\u00a0there are other components that make up polyurethanes that could also be changed.<\/p>\n

\u2018Imagine baking a cake. We worked on, for example, the milk that you need to produce the cake, but every other ingredient is still the same,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018To really reduce emissions \u2026 we need to not only exchange the milk, but also exchange the eggs, the flour and the sugar and only then can we come to a real sustainable product.\u2019<\/p>\n

Another initiative designed to enhance sustainability, this time in the chemicals industry, is the\u00a0CatASus<\/a>\u00a0project, which is coordinated by Katalin Barta Weissert, professor in the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Graz, Austria.<\/p>\n

The project is working on developing more sustainable methods\u00a0for deriving renewable sources of amines \u2014\u00a0a family of chemicals widely present in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and surfactants \u2014\u00a0from decomposing lignocellulose (waste plant dry matter abundantly produced in agricultural and forestry). Essentially, by using waste biomass to make amines, there should be no extra CO2 emissions that would otherwise occur to produce these chemicals.<\/p>\n

What is crucial is that basic research like this keeps getting funded \u2014 only then will scientists be able develop methods that will eventually eclipse the status quo so much so that industry will be compelled to adopt such technologies, she says.<\/p>\n

\u2018Eventually we should reach the stage where we design something clever that will actually cost less\u2026 where the industry will say \u201cthis is amazing; it\u2019s less polluting, less hazardous but also cheaper for us.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Eventually we should reach the stage where we design something clever that will actually cost less\u2026 where the industry will say \u201cthis is amazing; it\u2019s less polluting, less hazardous but also cheaper for us.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

Professor Katalin Barta Weissert, University of Graz, Austria<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Young<\/strong><\/p>\n

As it stands, many of the projects that are developing new carbon-cutting technologies for renewable chemicals are young \u2014\u00a0they have a long way to go, says Dr Adler.<\/p>\n

For instance, although her Carbon4PUR project has successfully demonstrated proof of concept on a semi-industrial scale, it needs to be trialled on a bigger scale and it will take at least five to\u00a010 years (assuming all goes well) before it will be market ready, she says.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, large-scale carbon storage projects are already underway. Norway, for example, has been storing CO2 under the North Sea for decades \u2014 driven by a carbon tax policy on offshore oil and gas fields. And the UK is about to fund two big projects to start by 2025, with two more by 2030.<\/p>\n

So certain technologies that can make a big difference already exist, but the problem is how to implement them fast enough and across the continent. Governments are not making enough headway in this regard because it means that they have to completely change the way that their energy system works, says Prof. Haszeldine. Using the\u00a0EU-ETS Innovation Fund<\/a>, the EU can help to fund the first pilot project to show carbon capture and storage works within a country, but it can’t fund everything, because there’s too much to fund, he says.<\/p>\n

\u2018A government has to be creative \u2014 to invent a way of making this inevitable, making companies and businesses clean up their carbon emissions instead of putting them in the atmosphere. The clean-up has to become normal.\u2019<\/p>\n

If Europe wants to achieve that net-zero position, he says, \u2018it really has to increase its ambition for the engineered capture of carbon capture and storage by a very large amount.\u2019<\/p>\n

The issue<\/strong><\/p>\n

To speed up the deployment of breakthrough technologies and cut the carbon footprint of the industrial sector, the EU is\u00a0developing a plan<\/a>\u00a0to create better links between Europe\u2019s research and innovation communities and industry.<\/p>\n

This \u2018low-carbon roadmap\u2019 will be the first in a series of\u00a0industrial technology roadmaps<\/a>\u00a0that spell out how research and industry can better work together, with upcoming subjects including circular industries.<\/p>\n

This story is part of a\u00a0series<\/a>\u00a0in which we hear from the next generation of scientists and researchers who are working to tackle global challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n

A discussion on resilient, low-carbon European industries will take place on 24 June as part of the European Commission\u2019s\u00a0Research and Innovation Days conference<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally published on Horizon Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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