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Background
The cement sector is responsible for around 30% of the total emission from the dispersed industrial sites in the UK, equivalent to 5% of the annual national industrial emission. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has the best potential to abate process emissions from the cement industry. However, since the cement production sites are geographically dispersed in the UK, transportation (i.e., road, rail, or pipelines) of the captured CO2 to planned CO2 storage sites can result in very high costs and carbon emissions.
Dr Xinyuan Ke
Principal Investigator
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
University of Bath
Project Team
University of Bath:
Mr Mohamed Katish
Mr Vahiddin Alperen Baki
Mr Brian Ding
University of Leeds:
CoI: Prof Susan A. Bernal
Dr Alice Macente
Heriot-Watt University:
CoI: Dr Phil Renforth
Aim
This project aims to provide the cement sector with a novel, technically feasible, and cost-effective on-site CCSU technology to enable this sector to rapidly achieve its ambitious national net-zero targets.
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This project will investigate the up-scaling potential of a novel on-site CCSU technology centred on CO2 sequestration in industry wastes for carbon-negative cement replacement materials production. This approach will enable valorisation of wastes via a suitable route for CO2 utilisation, while creating novel materials that can be used for net-zero concrete manufacturing, in compliance with the demand and requirement of end-users.
The ambition of this project is to provide techno-economic-environmental evidence, obtained from detailed experimental tests, chemical thermodynamic modelling (durability prediction) and cradle-to-grave LCA, to validate the up-scaling potential of a novel on-site CCSU technology for decarbonising the cement sector.
Unique to this project, industry validation of the developed technology will be conducted as a case study in the Humber Industrial cluster, which will provide crucial insight for its future adaptation/adoption across other UK sites.
The project will use assessing the up-scaling capacity at the Lafarge Cauldon cement plant (Humber Industrial cluster) as a case study.
Meet the Team
Mohamed Katish
Mohamed Katish
University of Bath
Vahiddin Alperen Baki
Vahiddin Alperen Baki
University of Bath
Mr Brian Ding
Mr Brian Ding
University of Bath
Prof Susan Bernal Lopez
Prof Susan Bernal Lopez
University of Leeds
Dr Alice Macente
Dr Alice Macente
University of Leeds
Dr Phil Renforth
Dr Phil Renforth
Heriot Watt University
Mohamed Katish
Mohamed Katish
University of Bath
Vahiddin Alperen Baki
Vahiddin Alperen Baki
University of Bath
Mr Brian Ding
Mr Brian Ding
University of Bath
Prof Susan Bernal Lopez
Prof Susan Bernal Lopez
University of Leeds
Dr Alice Macente
Dr Alice Macente
University of Leeds
Dr Phil Renforth
Dr Phil Renforth
Heriot Watt University
Planned Outputs
• 3D visualisation of produced low-carbon concretes by applying X-ray microtomography (XCT) to probe the long-term durability performances.
• Realistic estimation of the service life CO2 sequencing potential of the low-carbon cement and products using geochemical modelling.
• Cradle-to-grave LCA on the low-carbon cement product, including a case study on the pioneering CCUS deployment at the Lafarge Cauldon cement production site
