Germany – TES has granted Aker Carbon Capture a feasibility study to investigate the installation of a carbon capture plant at a German waste-to-energy facility.
An annual CO2 capture capacity of 400,000 tons is projected. The gathered carbon dioxide will be shipped by railcar to the TES facilities in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, where it will be converted into electric natural gas, or e-NG, by reacting green hydrogen and CO2.
The best facility for CO2 collecting, conditioning, liquefaction, and short-term storage will be evaluated by the study given to Aker Carbon collecting. As a sustainable substitute for fossil natural gas, e-NG will be made from the CO2 that has been trapped. “Synthetic methane” or “green gas” is produced by mixing recovered CO2 from industrial emissions and biogenic CO2 with green hydrogen produced by renewable energy sources. This conversion will be extremely economical because it will occur in an area with a large supply of green electricity and, hence, green hydrogen.
Green transformation
Because e-NG is portable and storable, it is a practical and expandable sustainable energy source. It easily integrates into the current fuel mix and is chemically equivalent to natural gas. This makes it an incredibly easy and affordable way to accelerate the green transformation. TES intends to create approximately 15 TWh of e-NG annually by 2030, or 0.4 megatons of green hydrogen.
Germany, the biggest economy in Europe and a major emitter of CO2, has been given this study for the third time. The nation wants to become carbon neutral by 2045 and reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 65% between 1990 and 2030. It has been determined that carbon capture, utilization, and storage, or CCUS, is crucial to the nation’s efforts to meet these objectives. Later this year, the German government is anticipated to release its Carbon Management Strategy.
