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An industrial take on developing and deploying carbon capture at scale
Jennifer Rudd 
Nature Reviews Chemistry, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 1 - 2
Swansea University Author:
Jennifer Rudd
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DOI (Published version): 10.1038/s41570-023-00560-4
Abstract
The year 2023 has been a record-breaking one for the impacts of climate change, and not in a positive way. The combination of low sea ice, flooding, heat waves and rising global temperatures have shown, once again, just how fragile the planet is. Decreasing carbon emissions is a worldwide challenge,...
| Published in: | Nature Reviews Chemistry |
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| ISSN: | 2397-3358 |
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Springer Nature
2024
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65352 |
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The year 2023 has been a record-breaking one for the impacts of climate change, and not in a positive way. The combination of low sea ice, flooding, heat waves and rising global temperatures have shown, once again, just how fragile the planet is. Decreasing carbon emissions is a worldwide challenge, and many countries have pledged to become ‘net zero’. One method being used to decarbonize heavy industries, such as steel and cement, is carbon capture and storage (CCS), in which CO2 emissions are captured at the source. Alongside CCS, to enable the world to become net zero, CO2 also needs to be removed from the air. For this, direct air capture (DAC), also referred to as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), is used. These new technologies are being developed and deployed to combat rising CO2 levels. However, the current deployment is inadequate. Although there are 24 commercial facilities (Fig. 1), with a combined CO2 capture capacity of 40 Mt/year globally1, this captures only 0.1% of global CO2 emissions (36,800 Mt/year) (ref. 2). With the consequences of the climate crisis becoming increasinglysevere, how could we scale up CCS and DAC technology to abate our runaway carbon emissions? |
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Carbon capture and storage |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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