The UK’s biggest carbon capture plant is to be built in Northwich, Cheshire and will begin operating in 2021. Tata Chemicals Europe’s new facility – partly funded by a government grant – will recycle 40,000 tonnes of waste carbon dioxide annually for use in manufacturing.
Energy ministers claim it will have the equivalent effect of taking 22,000 cars off the road every year. Tata says the facility will be the first in the world to purify and liquefy CO2 in order to make sodium bicarbonate, which is used in food and pharmaceutical processing.
The installation will remove 11% of the total emissions from Tata’s nearby power plant in Northwich.
Other carbon capture facilities in the UK include one at the Drax power station in Selby, North Yorkshire, which currently collects one ton of CO2 daily.
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The UK’s biggest carbon capture plant is to be built in Northwich, Cheshire and will begin operating in 2021. Tata Chemicals Europe’s new facility – partly funded by a government grant – will recycle 40,000 tonnes of waste carbon dioxide annually for use in manufacturing.
Energy ministers claim it will have the equivalent effect of taking 22,000 cars off the road every year. Tata says the facility will be the first in the world to purify and liquefy CO2 in order to make sodium bicarbonate, which is used in food and pharmaceutical processing.
The installation will remove 11% of the total emissions from Tata’s nearby power plant in Northwich.
Other carbon capture facilities in the UK include one at the Drax power station in Selby, North Yorkshire, which currently collects one ton of CO2 daily.