In the UK, Bdaily News reported that two Teesside University academics have received funding for research investigating how to reduce the carbon footprint from waste-to-energy plants.
Professor Dawid Hanak, in collaboration with Professor Kumar Patchigolla, has been granted funding from the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Community’s (UKCCSRC) Flexible Funding call to look at how carbon capture technology can be used alongside waste-to-energy (WtE) plants.
The research will address a critical need for the East Coast Cluster by assessing the techno-economic and carbon footprint of advanced WtE with carbon capture and storage (CCS), according to the report.
Their research project will comprehensively assess an advanced WtE plant based on calcium looping combustion (CaLC), which uses a compound of the mineral as a chemical sorbent to capture carbon dioxide emissions.
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Tags: calcium looping combustion, Teesside University, UK, waste-to-energy
Category: Research
