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Negative Emissions Technologies (NETS): Feasibility Study - Technical Appendices
Technical annex for study that estimates the maximum Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) potential achievable in Scotland, 2030 - 2050.
Appendix 8. Engineered GGR projects covered by the direct air capture and green house gas removal technologies competition
| Project | Technology | Pilot plant location | Funding | Other? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration, Advanced Biofuel Solutions Ltd | Biohydrogen production via gasification of waste and biomass with CCS | Northwest (located near HyNet) | £4,750,429.16 | Aims to optimise the production of biohydrogen with CCS using a demonstration plant capturing 1.8 kt/year Aim to roll out 10 plants in 2030 to capture 1Mt/year |
| Bio-waste to biochar (B to B) via Hydrothermal Carbonisation and Post-Carbonisation, Coal Products Limited (CPL) | Biochar production using biowaste and bio residues | At CPL’s site in Immingham (near Humber) | £4,997,822.00 | Aim to capture 6.36 ktCO2/year by 2030 |
| Mersey Biochar, Severn Wye Energy Agency | Biochar production using virgin woodchip, whole tree chip/arb arising, miscanthus, short rotation coppice (willow), and short rotation forestry (eucalyptus) | Lingley Mere business park, Warrington | £4,994,312.28 | Each pyrolysis unit will capture 5kt/year Aiming to capture 50kt/year |
| CCH2: Carbon Capture and Hydrogen, KEW Projects Ltd[66] | Biohydrogen production via gasification using biomass or refuse derived fuels (RDF) blended with biomass | Birmingham | £4,998,409.19 | Can access lower-quality forms of biomass which currently can go unutilised by EfW schemes Estimated that a 70 MWt Kew plant has a CAPEX of ~ £73m By 2024 KEW technology anticipates to upscale to units that can produce 1.3 t,H2/hr Aiming for 50ktCO2/year during 2025-2030 and 24 MtCO2/year in the subsequent decade. |
| DAC powered by Nuclear Power Plant, NNB Generation Company (SZC) Limited | Waste heat from Sizewell C nuclear plant powers solid sorbent DAC | Suffolk | £3,000,000.00 | Potential to remove 1.5 Mt/year if scaled up using c.400MWth of heat from Sizewell C |
| The Biochar Platform, Black Bull Biochar Ltd | Biochar production using woodchip, pinchip residues, and dairy farm manure | Cumbria/Southwest Scotland | £2,997,622.15 | Residues from BSW’s site in Fort William will be shipped across the border and be used in the Biochar Demonstrator Hub in Cumbria. Potential to remove 50 kt/year by 2030. Aim to develop the world’s first integrated biochar system |
| Project DRIVE (Direct Removal through Innovative Valorisation of Emissions), Mission Zero Technologies Ltd | Solvent DAC | Co-located at OCO’s Wretham site | £2,997,822.16 | Aim to capture 120t/year Will be more energy efficient, heat free, and continually operable compared to existing DAC technologies Potential to reduce the costs and energy consumption of DAC by 3-5 times |
| BIOCCUS, Ricardo UK Ltd | Biochar production using undried waste wood from sustainably sourced domestic timber with integrated CHP and CCS | Icknield Farm, Reading | £2,986,349.43 | Forecast to capture between 310-820 ktCO2/year by 2030 |
| SMART-DAC, CO2CirculAir B.V. | DAC using Membrane Gas Absorption (MGA) via KOH solvent and regeneration by electrodialysis bi-polar membranes (EDBP) | Port of Larne, Northern Ireland | £2,941,301.44 | Aim to design a pilot plant capturing 100 t/year |
| Direct Air CO2 Capture and Mineralisation (DACMIN), Cambridge Carbon Capture Ltd | DAC | Thornton Science Park, Chester | £2,999,964.00 | Aims to deliver a fully costed plan for a demonstrator capable of capturing CO2 from air and converting it directly into a mineral by-product used in construction Aims for a pilot plant capturing 100 t/year Aim to scale up to 50 kt/year |
| Reverse Coal, Lapwing Energy Limited | Biochar production using short willow coppice grown on rewet degraded peat soils. | Lapwing Estate, Doncaster | £2,999,822.60 | Energy released is used to power a highly productive vertical farm. Captures 670kgCO2/year.ha Can be scaled up to remove >1Mt/year CO2 |
| ENCORE (ENvironmental CO2 REmover), Rolls-Royce plc | Liquid based absorbent DAC | Derby | £2,812,704.12 | Aiming to develop a plant that captures 100kt/year |
| Ince Bioenergy Carbon Capture & Storage (INBECCS), Ince Bio Power Limited | Gasification of waste wood from IBP’s plant | Cheshire (near HyNet) | £4,992,408.30 | Aim to capture of 10t/day Aim to deliver the first operational BECCS plant in the Northwest and the first instance of integrated BECCS-gasification in the UK. Aim to produce BECCS negative power in the future. |
| Total = | £48,468,966.83 |
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Email: NETs@gov.scot
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