Energy intensive industries (EII) face the great challenge of remaining competitive while reducing their carbon emissions, in line with ambitious EU climate policies. Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies powered by renewable energy (RE) will play a key role in preventing further carbon release into the atmosphere while obtaining valuable products from it.
The EU-funded CAPTUS project aims to make EII-derived CO2 an exploitable resource through the industrial demonstration of three promising CCU technologies, where the CO2 captured from cement, steel, and chemical plants will be valorised into different RE carriers.
The CAPTUS processes involve the integration of surplus RE, contributing to a more efficient and sustainable transition and including detailed analyses on safety, environmental, societal, and business aspects.