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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, onceagain, just how fragile the planet is. Decreasing carbon emissions is aworldwide challenge, an...
| Published in: | Nature Reviews Chemistry |
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| ISSN: | 2397-3358 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2023
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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, onceagain, just how fragile the planet is. Decreasing carbon emissions is aworldwide challenge, and many countries have pledged to become ‘netzero’. One method being used to decarbonize heavy industries, suchas steel and cement, is carbon capture and storage (CCS), in which CO2emissions are captured at the source. Alongside CCS, to enable theworld to become net zero, CO2 also needs to be removed from the air.For this, direct air capture (DAC), also referred to as carbon dioxideremoval (CDR), is used. These new technologies are being developedand 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, thiscaptures 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 ourrunaway carbon emissions? |
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| Keywords: |
Carbon capture and storage |
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School of Management |
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