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Edmonton cement plant’s carbon capture project on hold

The plan was for a site to was to use cement to capture greenhouse gases in a process called carbon capture. But three years after the pilot, Heidelberg Materials is pausing the plan. The site was supposed to capture a million tonnes of CO2 annually, the equivalent of emissions from 300 thousand cars. But Heidelberg

Edmonton cement plant’s carbon capture project on hold

The plan was for a site to was to use cement to capture greenhouse gases in a process called carbon capture. But three years after the pilot, Heidelberg Materials is pausing the plan. The site was supposed to capture a million tonnes of CO2 annually, the equivalent of emissions from 300 thousand cars. But Heidelberg

nova-Experts (re)introduced: Niels de Beus (M.Sc. Biotechnology)

Sustainability Assessment Niels is part of the nova team for over 10 years. After joining the institute in 2015 as an intern, he completed his Master’s Degree in Biotechnology at Wageningen University and became an expert in nova’s sustainability team. As a part of our sustainability department, Niels focusses on Life Cycle Assessment, process evaluation,

Cities need robust carbon dioxide removal strategies to meet net-zero targets

Leading European cities race to reach net-zero emissions, but residual emissions are tied to easier-to-abate sectors and temporary, land-intensive carbon removal for compensation. To keep climate neutrality credible and fair, policy must tighten expectations on cutting emissions and set clear rules for carbon removal and credits. Recommendations for policy based on G. Ulpiani et al.

How cement plants can remove CO₂ from the atmosphere

Cement is one of the most in-demand building materials of our time. Every year, around four billion tonnes are produced. Cement production is energy-intensive, and greenhouse gases are emitted during the process – particularly during the thermal decomposition of limestone, the most important natural raw material for cement. In a new study, ETH researchers show

Wie Zementwerke der Atmosphäre CO₂ entziehen können

Zement gehört zu den am meisten nachgefragten Baumaterialien unserer Zeit. Weltweit werden jährlich rund vier Milliarden Tonnen davon produziert. Die Herstellung von Zement ist energieintensiv, und während des Verfahrens entstehen Treibhausgase – vor allem bei der thermischen Zersetzung von Kalkstein, dem wichtigsten natürlichen Rohstoff für Zement. ETH-Forschende zeigen in einer neuen Studie, dass diese Emissionen

China repurposing pharma mega-factories to make novel foods, GFI report reveals

China’s industrial fermentation ecosystem is among the largest and most developed in the world. Decades of investment in fermentation-based pharmaceuticals and vitamins have created a manufacturing sector with vast production capacity, experienced technical talent, established supply chains, and competitive operating costs. Historically, these companies have shown limited interest in food applications, since pharmaceuticals are often

Mitsubishi Electric develops CCU disaster-resilience evaluation with University of Tokyo

Mitsubishi Electric said on August 4 it had jointly developed with the University of Tokyo a technology that can quantitatively evaluate the economic value of carbon capture and utilization, or CCU, from both day-to-day carbon dioxide reduction and improved resilience during disasters. The Japanese industrial group said the method makes it possible to derive an

Pilot-scale production of leucine from CO2

Technology readiness The overall technology readiness level (TRL) of the leucine production process from CO2 with Methanothermobacter marburgensis as an archaeal cell factory is estimated to be at TRL 5. The overarching process is split into three parts, namely metabolic engineering of M. marburgensis, process development and scaling, as well as downstream processing. While markerless

Opinion: Europe’s climate-elephant in the room: What to do with left-over emissions when we get to net zero?

As the European Commission published its review of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), one of the first steps towards implementing the 2040 climate target to reduce emissions by 90 percent, Europe is moving towards the most challenging sources of emissions: “residual emissions”, which remain undefined in the policy architecture. Residual emissions are what is left