London-based recycling and waste management supplier Cory Group (Cory) and UK university Imperial College London have formed a new partnership to drive innovation in carbon capture and storage (CCS).
The collaboration will leverage Cory’s market expertise and Imperial’s research strengths. Imperial is home to the UK’s largest CCS research programme, led by its Department of Chemical Engineering.
Together the two organisations will work to drive research and innovation in carbon capture technology, as well as encourage entry into CCS-related career paths.
According to research by the UK’s Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA), the CCS sector has the potential to generate over 50,000 jobs by 2050.
But there are challenges today. Many are grappling with high costs, technical difficulties, safety concerns (leakage), limited storage capacity, and regulatory hurdles.
Cory is developing a CCS project at its Riverside campus in Belvedere, south-east London, which will capture approximately 1.4 million tonnes of CO2 emitted from its two energy from waste (EfW) facilities, Riverside 1 and Riverside 2, per year.
The captured CO2 will then be shipped to the Port of Immingham in Lincolnshire and stored in the Viking depleted gas fields. This has the potential to be one of the world’s first CO2 shipping projects and act as a pathfinder for industrial emitters that do not have access to a pipeline.
The Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial is home to the university’s carbon capture pilot plant. It spans four floors and serves as a scaled-down representation of a full-scale chemical engineering plant.
