Carbon capture, utilisation and storage
Carbon capture and storage plays a critical role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially from sectors that are hard to decarbonise.
Carbon capture utilisation and storage
Ricardo's experts have a comprehensive and innovative portfolio of capabilities in carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS), supporting both public and private sector decarbonisation efforts.
Our deep understanding of the power generation, CO₂ capture and industrial utilisation technologies as well as our knowledge of the policy and regulatory landscape worldwide enables us to support both policy makers and organisations needing to decarbonise their operations..
Our support iextends from strategic planning to practical implementation. Ricardo engineers lead the consortium behind the BIOCCUS demonstrator CHP plant, which captures up to 95% of CO₂ emissions from biomass and delivers scalable, modular CCUS solutions that produce biochar, clean energy, and food-grade CO₂.
Our key capabilities in carbon capture, utilisation and storage
Ricardo has leading expertise and knowledge on many aspects related to carbon, capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) including technology evaluation and assessment, due diligence, techno-economic analysis, life cycle and environmental impact assessment, market analysis and supply chain evaluation.
Ricardo is leading a consortium comprising Bluebox Energy and Woodtek Engineering. The consortium is designing, installing and operating a combined heat and power demonstrator plant with a carbon negative footprint to showcase climate repairing technology, and demonstrate the effectiveness of community scale negative emission technology plus clean energy using sustainably-sourced forestry waste.
- Assessment of new innovative CO2 capture technologies
- Concept development, feasibility studies and FEED studies
- Whole system analysis and comparison of technologies covering gas, coal and biomass fuels in a wide range of sectors including power generation, chemicals, gas processing, refineries, iron and steel and cement
- Life cycle emission analysis of energy systems with CCUS
- Evaluation of policy mechanisms and review of worldwide regulatory regimes for supporting CCUS
- Development of innovative concepts for monitoring CCUS networks
- Economic impact assessment of CCUS projects and assessment of value added to the UK from clean abatement technologies with CCUS
- Assessment and due diligence of CO2 removal technologies in the anaerobic digestion (AD) sector for biogas upgrading
- Evaluation of the CCS Directive on geological storage of CO2
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