Ever heard of a chemical plant that captures CO2 and converts it into valuable chemicals? It’s a world first,and it’s in India
Now clean
Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals now captures CO2 and uses it to produce useful chemicals, according to The Guardian. The plant, which is located in the district of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, now emits no CO2
60,000 tonnes
Amount of CO2 the plant will capture in a year
How does it work?
The plant uses a boiler for its operations. The emissions from the boiler are passed through a patented chemical which sends out only CO2. This is then converted into compounds used for manufacturing glass, BBC reported
Carbonclean Solutions
The chemical used to filter out CO2 was invented by Indian chemists Aniruddha Sharma and Prateek Bumb, who founded Carbonclean Solutions. Although they failed to raise financial support from India, their firm, working with the Institute of Chemical Technology at Mumbai and Imperial College in London, got backing from UK’s entrepreneur support scheme, BBC added
The plant does not claim to solve the problem of climate change. The amount of CO2 it captures is meagre when compared to the 600-700 million tonnes of carbon dioxide released by coal-based power plants in India in one year. Nevertheless, this development is a reason for cheer