Carbon8 Systems, a UK-based company that created a process which combines industrial waste residues with captured CO2 emissions, has announced it will start its first Energy from Waste (EfW) pilot project in The Netherlands.
AVR EfW plant, Duiven
AVR’s Duiven site will host the pilot project. (Photo: Carbon8)
Carbon8 System’s accelerated carbonation process produces high-value, lightweight aggregate construction materials that are suitable for concrete applications. The pilot will be located at AVR’s EfW plant at Duiven, 120 km east of Rotterdam.
This announcement of the pilot project follows the announcement in July this year of Carbon8 Systems’ first commercial agreement to deploy its carbon capture and utilisation technology – at a cement plant in France, owned by the Vicat Group.
Carbon8 Systems’ carbon capture and utilisation solution - known as the CO₂ntainer – has been described as “carbon capture in a box".
For this pilot, a CO₂ntainer will be installed at Duiven to demonstrate how fly ash produced by an EfW plant can be combined with captured CO2 emissions to create manufactured aggregate for use in the construction industry.
Annually, the Duiven plant processes waste from 1.5 million households, releasing around 400,000 tonnes of CO2.
It is expected that the Duiven pilot will produce 100 tonnes of building materials, with the potential to use more of the plant’s CO2 in the future. At Duiven, Carbon8 Systems’ CO₂ntainer will use the CO2 from the EfW plant’s flue gas that would normally be captured and sold directly.
Dr Paula Carey, co-founder and Technical Director of Carbon8 Systems, said: “Working closely with AVR, drawing on our experience of working with the cement industry, and following positive lab tests results, we are pursuing a two-phase strategy for deploying our technology in the global Energy from Waste sector: running a pilot scheme first and then, if successful, into commercial operation. Ideally, we will do this at Duiven or elsewhere within AVR’s operations in The Netherlands”.
“Given the level of flue gas emissions from EfW plants and the need to stop ash going to landfill – and not forgetting the high cost of doing so – we see significant business opportunities for our CO₂ntainer in the EfW sector – in Europe and worldwide.”
Michiel Timmerije, Director of Energy & Residues at AVR said: “We are interested in the environmental and commercial potential of Carbon8 Systems’ technology. AVR is 100% committed to using solutions that make the best use of our CO2 emissions, and the ash that our plants produce. We are ultimately targeting zero waste.”
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