Carbon Capture Gets to Pilot stage with new plant in India

Carbon Clean has set up a pilot for its carbon capture project at the Global Innovation Centre in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. The plant will absorb 2 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) per day, and will serve as a test bed for technologies before they can be commercialized.

The plant will enable the company to test various solvents and processes in industrial environments. Its goal is to learn the functioning of these technologies and to get them ready for application in sectors where reducing emissions is still a high priority.

The company is focusing on the cement, steel, gas turbines, and heavy manufacturing industries. It is also examining information about the data centre industry, which is seeing increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and thus demand for computing power and energy.

One of the company’s key technologies is its modular CycloneCC C1 series. It employs a special liquid solvent called APBS-CDRMax which is able to capture CO₂ from industrial processes. A unit can sequester 75 to 295 tonnes of CO₂ per day, depending on the setup, the company says.

The company claims that its technologies have sequestered over 3 million tonnes of CO₂ across the world. It signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partnering agreement with Samsung E&A to develop carbon capture modular solutions for the industry.