UK's largest carbon capture plant
Tata Chemicals Europe has opened the UK's first industrial scale carbon capture plant.
Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE), UK, produce sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate.
After a £20mln investment, the new plant at the Chesire site will capture 40,000t of CO2 a year, the equivalent emissions produced by 20,000 cars. This will reduce TCE's emissions by 10%.
For the first time, carbon dioxide from energy generation emissions is being purified to food and pharmaceutical grade, and will be used as a raw material to make sodium bicarbonate.
TCE plans to export this UK-patented process, known as Ecokarb, to more than 60 countries, and say that much of the sodium bicarbonate exported will be used in haemodialysis for people with kidney disease.
