Carbon capture technology in India is emerging as a crucial solution to reduce CO2 emissions and combat climate change. With India’s growing industrial sector and energy needs, this innovative technology is vital for achieving sustainability and meeting climate goals. Learn about the latest advancements in carbon capture projects across India, the challenges, and how this technology could transform the nation’s carbon footprint. Explore the role of carbon capture in India’s green energy future and its potential to contribute to global climate action.
Global Warming
Due to industrialization and modernization, a significant increase in carbon emissions has been observed. The importance of effective carbon capture cannot be overstated. An increase in carbon emissions leads to global warming. Land plants and the ocean have taken up about 55 percent of the extra carbon from the atmosphere. Around 45 percent remains in the atmosphere for thousands of years.
The extra carbon needs to be in balanced form. The changes in the carbon cycle impact each reservoir. Excess carbon in the atmosphere warms the planet and helps plants grow. In the ocean, excess carbon makes the water more acidic, putting marine life in danger.
Significantly, so much carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere because CO2 is the most important gas for controlling Earth’s temperature. Carbon dioxide, Methane, and halocarbons are greenhouse gases that absorb a wide range of energy including infrared energy (heat) emitted by the Earth and then re-emit it. The re-emitted energy travels out in all directions, but some returns to Earth, where it heats the surface. Without greenhouse gases, the earth temperature will be -18 degrees Celsius. With too many greenhouse gases, Earth would be like Venus, where the greenhouse atmosphere keeps temperatures around 400 degrees Celsius.
So while carbon dioxide contributes less to the overall greenhouse effect than water vapour, scientists have found that carbon dioxide is the gas that sets the temperature. Carbon dioxide controls the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere and the size of the greenhouse effect.
Rising carbon dioxide concentrations are already causing the planet to heat up. At the same time that greenhouse gases have been increasing, average global temperatures have risen 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1880.
The need for carbon capture and carbon storage arises due to such disastrous effects.
Carbon Capture Technology
Various technologies are used to capture CO₂ at the source. They fall into three categories:
- Post combustion carbon capture
In post combustion carbon capture process, CO₂ is separated from the exhaust of a combustion process.
- Pre combustion carbon capture
Pre combustion capture technologies are commercially available and used by industrial facilities. It is costly and can only be built into new facilities.
- Oxy fuel combustion systems
For oxy fuel combustion, fuel burns in a nearly pure oxygen environment rather than regular air which results in a more concentrated stream of CO₂ emissions, which is easier and cheaper to capture.
Carbon Sequestration
Climate change innovation needs to focus on rapid deployment, economies of scale, and affordability for developing countries. Effective use of renewable energy during peak hours like solar and wind, sunk costs, existing utility networks, and the myriad of safety and technical limitations. We suggest not thinking of carbon as a burden but as the building block of life. Carbon capture technology transforms carbon emissions into cheap and bountiful energy. One can easily store and distribute it.
Technology Highlights
- A solution that scrubs carbon emissions from any resource and converts them into renewable energy
- Our innovation is compact and modular
- Electricity drives the process in 5 minute bursts.
- The conversion of CO2 into an asset with zero emissions
- We can retrofit our equipment to any carbon dioxide source. It uses renewable electricity to convert carbon dioxide emissions into methane.
A 100% carbon neutral system can transform an existing fossil fuel fired appliance. This system maintains a closed carbon loop.
