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| Mott MacDonald appointed on leading-edge CO2 study Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Research & Development Programme (IEA GHG) to assess technologies that could be used to capture CO2 in new cement plants and retrofits of existing plants. The cement industry is one of the largest industrial sources of CO2, accounting for approximately 5% of total carbon emissions worldwide. Working in consultation with the British Cement Association (BCA), Mott MacDonald's project team will examine the two most feasible routes for carbon capture and storage at cement plants – oxy-combustion and post-combustion. The first phase of the study will assess the performance and costs of the two technologies and identify their relative merits and the second phase will provide a detailed assessment of the impacts on performance and costs of adding one of the technologies to a new build cement plant (initially in Europe). Further stages will look at the impacts of introducing this technology to a cement plant in an Asian developing country and ways of making cement plants 'capture ready' or designed to enable CO2 capture to be easily retrofitted in future if necessary. The study is due for completion towards the end of 2007. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |