Feasibility of using carbon capture and mineralisation technology to decarbonise the UK ceramics industry

整个项目（第一阶段和第二阶段）将部署一个试验工厂，使用剑桥碳捕获有限公司的新型CO2LOC技术，从无畏瓦片生产基地烧制屋顶瓦片的窑炉中捕获二氧化碳和氮氧化物排放。CO2LOC技术捕获并将排放物转化为商业上有用的碳酸镁副产品。在这个项目中，试验工厂的碳酸镁产量将转移到附近的Tarmac UK拥有的混凝土块制造工厂，在那里它将用于开发建筑材料概念，这些概念将在示范建筑中进行测试和使用。该项目的第一阶段将是一项可行性研究，以验证第二阶段项目在成本、效益、环境和社会影响方面的可行性，并将形成第二阶段项目的理由和基础，第二阶段项目将交付试验工厂并为捕获的二氧化碳开发市场。CO2LOC技术的成功试点将鼓励进一步支持该技术的开发和推广，该技术将为许多工业部门提供经济上可行的零排放解决方案。这对于远离拟议的碳捕获和储存基础设施的工业设施尤其重要，确保它们达到零排放目标，允许这些工厂在2050年之后继续运营。

The overall project (Phase 1&2) will be to deploy a pilot plant capturing the CO2 and NOx emissions from a kiln used to fire roof tiles at Dreadnought Tiles production site using Cambridge Carbon Capture Ltd's novel CO2LOC technology. CO2LOC technology captures and converts the emissions to a commercially useful magnesium carbonate by-product. In this project the magnesium carbonate output of the pilot plant will be transferred to a nearby concrete block manufacturing plant owned by Tarmac UK where it will be used to develop construction material concepts which will be tested and used in a demonstration building. Phase 1 of the project will be a feasibility study to validate the viability of the phase 2 project in terms of cost, benefit and environmental and social impacts and will form the justification and basis of the phase 2 project, which will be to deliver the pilot plant and develop a market for the captured CO2\. A successful pilot of CO2LOC technology will encourage further support for the development and scale up of a technology which would offer an economically viable Zero Emissions solution across many industrial sectors. This will be especially important for industrial facilities located a distance away from proposed carbon capture and storage infrastructure, ensuring they meet Zero Emissions targets allowing continuation of these plants past 2050\.