Carbon Seize Scotland Restricted (“CCSL”) has signed an settlement with Iona Capital (“Iona”), a UK low carbon funding fund supervisor, to seize and reuse inexperienced carbon dioxide from the latter’s biomethane vegetation positioned throughout the UK. The captured carbon dioxide (CO₂) will probably be utilized by CCSL to create low-carbon and low-energy dry ice to be used within the meals, chilly logistics and pharmaceutical industries.
The settlement between Iona and CCSL is an extension of their current partnership at Iona’s Crofthead Anaerobic Digestion/biogas plant in Dumfries (south west Scotland), which is the primary and solely biomethane facility in Scotland to function with carbon seize. At their adjoining website to the Crofthead plant, CCSL takes the CO₂ from Crofthead to make dry ice for business use.
The 2 corporations plan to increase their settlement to any future AD/biogas vegetation that Iona might develop within the UK, continental Europe and North America.
Alex Todhunter, Funding Supervisor at Iona Capital mentioned: “This partnership with CCSL presents the meals, chilly logistics and pharmaceutical industries a “inexperienced” dry ice that can assist in the direction of their Internet Zero and sustainability targets. The utilization of CO₂ generated from farm waste and crops is yet one more demonstration of how anaerobic digestion contributes to a sustainable low carbon future and the round financial system.”
Richard Nimmons, Director of Carbon Seize Scotland Restricted mentioned: “CCSL’s partnership with Iona will speed up our enterprise development in our residence market of Scotland and additional afield. Importantly, it represents a scalable framework for clear, measurable carbon elimination that brings us nearer to our purpose of eradicating 1million tons of CO₂ from the ambiance per yr.”
CO₂ is an important compound used within the meals, chilly logistics and pharmaceutical industries and is mostly produced as a by-product throughout ammonia manufacturing (c 80% of the ammonia produced by trade is utilized in agriculture as fertilizer). Ammonia manufacturing is an vitality and carbon intensive course of, taking on almost 2% of annual international vitality manufacturing. 100% biogenic inexperienced CO₂ from farm wastes and crops, utilizing renewable electrical energy, offers a low vitality inexperienced different.
