One of Europe’s leading sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate producers, Tata Chemicals Europe, has opened the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage (CCU) plant.
The project will see 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured per year, with the purified product being used a raw material in the manufacture of sodium bicarbonate, known as Ecokarb.
Exported to over 60 countries around the world, a large amount of the product will be used in haemodialysis to treat people suffering from kidney disease.
Funding for the plant was provided through a £4.2m grant supplied by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Energy Innovation Programme (EIP).
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