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)将部署一个试点工厂，利用剑桥碳捕获有限公司的新型CO2LOC技术，在无畏瓷砖生产现场部署一个窑炉，收集用于烧制屋顶瓷砖的二氧化碳和氮氧化物排放。CO2LOC技术捕获排放物，并将其转化为商业上有用的碳酸镁副产品。在该项目中，试点工厂的碳酸镁产量将被转移到附近的Tarmac UK拥有的混凝土砌块制造厂，在那里将用于开发建筑材料概念，并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、效益以及环境和社会影响方面的可行性，并将构成第二阶段项目的理由和基础，第二阶段项目将提供试点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扩大规模，该技术将在许多工业部门提供经济上可行的零排放解决方案。这对于距离拟建的碳捕获和封存基础设施较远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\.