Cement News tagged under: carbon capture
TITAN announces IFESTOS grant agreement with EU Innovation Fund19 December 2023, Published under Cement NewsTITAN has signed a Grant Agreement with the EU Innovation Fund for IFESTOS, its pioneering carbon capture project in Greece, following its selection in July, in the context of the fund’s third call for large-scale projects. The EU Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest funding programmes for innovative low-carbon technologies, will support TITAN's project with a grant of EUR234m. IFESTOS is poised to accelerate the green transformation of the Greek building materials industry and ... |
CINEA joins KOdeCO net zero project18 December 2023, Published under Cement NewsHolcim Croatia has signed a contract with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), managing programmes of the European Commission contributing to decarbonisation and sustainable development. The KOdeCO net zero project, on which Holcim Croatia ( Holcim ) has been working for the past two years, has become the first major project from Croatia to be co-financed by the EU Commission with EUR117m! The Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project, with a ... |
Catch4climate project completes construction of 60m preheater tower08 December 2023, Published under Cement NewsScherr+Klimke AG build 60m Catch4climate preheater tower in Germany A new milestone for the pilot project "Catch4climate" has been achieved with the completion of the 60m-high preheater tower. A demonstration plant is currently being built on the site of Schwenk Zement' s Mergelstetten cement plant in southern Germany, which will use the thyssenkrupp polysius ® pure Oxyfuel process for CO₂ capture and is scheduled to go into operation at the end of 2024. The polysius ® pu... |
Heracles Group’s Olympus CO2 project receives EU funding06 December 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe EU Innovation Fund has chosen to co-finance Heracles Group ’s ( Holcim ) Olympus CO 2 capture project. The Olympus project aims to transform Heracles Group’s plant in Milaki , Greece, into a zero carbon cement plant through the use of innovative carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. The project marks an investment of over EUR300m, of which the EU Innovation Fund will grant EUR124.5m. Dimitris Chanis, Heracles Group CEO, said, “With the Olympus project, we make another stra... |
CO2NTESSA’s net-zero vision27 November 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe CO 2 NTESSA project will implement an innovative carbon capture (CC) technology at NEXE’s cement plant in Našice, Croatia. The existing plant will be modified based on the polysius® pure oxyfuel process, enabling it to capture more than 700,000tpa of CO 2 and a store it onshore in the Bockovci-1 saline aquifer. By NEXE Group, Croatia. The co2ntessa project will see the implementation of oxyfuel-based carbon capture at NEXE’s cement plant in Našice, Croatia (© NEXE) NEXE ... |
Carbon capture optimisation: add heat, reduce risk13 November 2023, Published under Cement NewsWhile a range of carbon capture (CC) technologies are available to the cement industry, not all are a suitable option in terms of cost and risk. Ramboll looks at the benefits of an integrated amine-based solution. By Thomas Paarup Pedersen, Andrea Meroni, Christian Riber and Burcin Temel Mckenna, Ramboll, Denmark. Figure 1: simple process flow diagram of a cement plant with carbon capture, CO2 purification and liquefaction, and export. Red lines indicate heat recovery and integrati... |
Heidelberg Materials’ journey to net-zero07 November 2023, Published under Cement NewsHeidelberg Materials is investing in multiple projects to achieve its ambitious target of reducing its CO 2 emissions by 47 per cent by 2030. From its first carbon capture and storage (CCUS) project at the Brevik plant in Norway almost 20 years ago, the cement producer has developed several CCS projects using a range of technologies. By S Federhen and A Burns, Heidelberg Materials, Germany. Figure 1: by 2030 Heidelberg Materials wants to reduce its CO2 emissions by 47 per cent when ... |
Australia embraces low carbon23 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsThe carbon tax has had a profound effect on Australia’s cement industry, which has expanded its clinker grinding facilities and channelled investment into decarbonisation measures. New players are also keen to enter the market while the government looks at preventing carbon leakage in the face of growing imports. Australia’s cement industry looks firmly towards the future as it embraces decarbonisation with investments in current plants and future technologies (© AdBri) Austr... |
Expanding the EU's carbon management accounting framework13 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsThis week the CCS+ initiative released its EU guide to an integrated carbon accounting infrastructure for the industrial carbon management market. The market for carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is developing and the accounting framework needs to be robust to ensure the best solutions will emerge from policies and investment. The CCS+ initiative claims that the deployment o... |
Towards Germany’s first fully-decarbonised cement plant10 October 2023, Published under Cement NewsHeidelberg Materials’ new GeZero project will completely decarbonise cement production at the Geseke plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The first of its kind project will establish a full carbon capture and storage value chain for an inland site and is expected to capture 700,000tpa of CO 2 from 2029. Here, the company outlines the project’s scope and set-up for full-scale carbon capture. By Heidelberg Materials, Germany. Construction of Heidelberg Materials’ GeZero CCUS proje... |