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Building the CO2 infrastructure for Germany’s cement sector

09 September 2024, Published under Cement News

The decarbonisation of the cement and lime industries requires the construction of infrastructure to enable the transport of the captured CO 2 to its storage or utilisation sites. In a new study, VDZ analyses the situation in Germany and highlights the requirements for the future. B y Dennis Behrouzi, Manuel Mohr and Dr Johannes Ruppert, VDZ, Germany Figure 1: CO2 capture in the cement industry – examples of projects in Germany (© VDZ) Cement and lime production, as wel...

Compressors for carbon capture

04 September 2024, Published under Cement News

A groundbreaking project in Norway will produce the world’s first industrial-scale carbon-free cement. It is a vital effort to decarbonise one of the hardest to manage industrial sectors, but Marco Ernst, head of sales and project management CCS at MAN Energy Solutions, argues that the true key to achieving carbon capture at scale is cost. By Dr Marco Ernst , MAN Energy Solutions, Germany Heidelberg Materials’ Brevik plant will capture and store some 400,000tpa of CO 2 when opera...

Heidelberg Materials plans carbon capture plant in Mitchell

30 August 2024, Published under Cement News

Heidelberg Materials North America is looking to become an industry leader in sustainability. Earlier this year, the company was selected for a US$500m grant to build a carbon capture and storage system (CCS) and this month, the company has announced that it has finalised negotiations with the US Department of Energy (DOE) on the project.  The company and the DOE have set up a complex series of grants, with the Heidelberg Materials Mitchell cement plant  (Indianapolis) set to be one of...

Carbon8's CO2 capture technology is validated by DNV

10 July 2024, Published under Cement News

DNV has validated the methodology developed and used by Carbon8 to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon8’s patented technology permanently captures CO 2 at source from hard-to-abate industries and DNV has verified that Carbon8’s methodology satisfies the ISO 14064 part 2 standard.   Eager to demonstrate authenticity, quality and traceability, Carbon8 selected DNV to validate and authenticate its methodology. The ISO 14064 part 2 requirements specifically relate to quantifying, monitor...

Cemex invests in KC8 Capture Technologies

09 July 2024, Published under Cement News

Cemex has announced its latest investment in the carbon capture start-up KC8 Capture Technologies (KC8) through its venture capital and open innovation unit, Cemex Ventures. The investment aims to scale KC8's carbon capture technologies in a major project. KC8, based in Australia, offers an affordable method for reducing greenhouse gas emissions with its proprietary non-toxic, non-volatile solvent for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). This technology promises up to 95 per ...

Bath carbon capture project seeks profit from captured CO2

08 July 2024, Published under Cement News

The carbon capture project at Lafarge Canada 's Bath Ontario, Canada, aims to make a profit. While the path to net zero will overwhelmingly come from actually cutting emissions, not capturing them, the project in Bath, aims to transforms captured CO 2 into calcium carbonate,   a product that is   used in pharmaceuticals, paint and packaging and can achieve prices of US$400-2700/t on the world market, depending on purity and grade. While these varied uses show the growth potential for the f...

Siam Cement Group awards CCU project to JSC Co

05 July 2024, Published under Cement News

Siam Cement Group – Cement and Green Solution Business (SCG-CGS) has awarded Japan Gasoline Co (JGC) of Japan the pre-feasibility study for a CO 2 capture and utilisation (CCU) facility for its cement plants. The study for the awarded CCU facility calls for selection of the technology licence for CCU, evaluation of the required production capacity of CO 2 capture facilities and chemical plants, as well as assessment of economic feasibility, to construct a CCU facility for the capture of...

ANRAV project completes temporary installation of OxyCal and Oxygen storage units

02 July 2024, Published under Cement News

Heidelberg Materials reports that over the last six months significant progress has been made at its Bulgarian Devnya cement plant with the installation of the temporary OxyCal and Oxygen storage units, which are now fully integrated into the commercially operating kiln. The ANRAV project will be the multinational’s first full-chain CCUS project in eastern Europe, and will eventually cover carbon capture, transport and storage as well as utilisation. In a first step towards full-sc...

Lafarge Canada and Hyperion collaborate on carbon recycling

12 June 2024, Published under Cement News

Lafarge Canada and Canadian carbon technology innovator Hyperion Global Energy Corp have announced the launch of Hyperion’s patented Tandem Carbon Recycling System © pilot. This pioneering process advances circularity by capturing and transforming carbon emissions into high-performance mineral components used to make sustainable building solutions such as low-carbon concrete and other materials.  The pilot project, currently in operation at Lafarge’s Bath cement plant in Ontario, inv...

Pioneering next-generation carbon capture

03 June 2024, Published under Cement News

As governments, corporations and society push for more aggressive climate action, the search for scalable and efficient carbon capture technologies has intensified. The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have both highlighted the critical role and current shortfall of carbon capture technologies in advancing these ambitious goals. To move beyond the crossroads of innovation and environmental stewardship towards sustainability, carbon c...