The United Kingdom’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded nearly £4 million in funding for industrial carbon capture and storage projects, two of which will involve the University of Hull, the university announced Monday. Meihong Wang, and his Process and Energy Systems Engineering research team, will work with consortiums led by Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh in projects funded at £985,463 and £982,114, respectively
“Capturing carbon from industrial processes is very costly and provides a different challenge to the process for capturing carbon from power plants. The hope is, we find the most suitable method of industrial carbon capture and tell policy makers how much it would cost to capture,” Wang said in a University of Hull press release.
EPSRC selected four projects under its industrial CCS funding opportunity. The Heriot-Watt University project will investigate the potential integration of novel hydrotalcite solid sorbents with advanced heat integration processes for industrial CO2 capture. The University of Edinburgh project in which the University of Hull is involved will explore the combination of rotating packed bed absorption and microwave-assisted regeneration to address efficiency and corrosion issues caused by amine solvents.
A second University of Edinburgh led project funded at £860,548 seeks to “intensify the efficiency of [its] carbon capture units by reducing cycle times and increasing the working capacity of the adsorbents,” according to the funding announcement. A final project, led by Newcastle University and funded at £1.02 million, will “be the first of its kind to evaluate multiple potential ICCS clusters planned worldwide and assess their impact on products and consumers,” the announcement explains.
