Two National Centres of Excellence in Carbon Capture and Utilization are being established in India. These are National Centre of Excellence in Carbon Capture and Utilization (NCoE-CCU) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and the National Centre in Carbon Capture and Utilization (NCCCU) at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru.
- The two Centres are being set up with support from the Department of Science & Technology.
What are Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)
- Carbon capture, utilisation and storage, or CCUS, is an important emissions reduction technology that can be applied across the energy system.
- CO2 can be captured using different methods. The main ones are: post-combustion, pre-combustion and oxyfuel.
- Post-combustion technology removes CO2 from the flue gases that result from burning fossil fuels.
- Pre-combustion methods – carried out before burning the fossil fuel – involve converting the fuel into a mixture of hydrogen and CO2.
- Oxyfuel technology produces CO2 and steam by burning fossil fuels with almost pure oxygen.
- Post-combustion and oxyfuel equipment can be fitted to new plants or retrofitted – in other words, added to existing power stations that were originally built without it.
- Pre-combustion methods require large modifications to existing plans to be retrofitted, and are therefore more suitable to new built.
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