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Marubeni Corporation announced that it has invested in Carbon Clean Solutions Ltd. (CCSL) in the United Kingdom, an enterprise with know-how to recover CO2 from emissions generated by firepower and industrial plants.
The company will work to co-develop CO2 collection, effective use, and recycling, i.e. carbon capture and utilization (CCUs).
In recent years, the importance of climate change measures against the background of global warming has increased worldwide, and the reduction of greenhouse gases has become a challenge. Under these circumstances, CCUs are expected to be one of the key options to combat global warming, controlling CO2 generated by industrial plants such as iron and cement plants, petrochemical plants, and waste incinerators.
CCSL has a technology to develop new recovered solvents used in chemical absorption methods, allowing CO2 recovery at a higher efficiency and lower cost than conventional recovered solvents. It is currently the world’s highest level of cost-competitiveness in commercialized CO2 recovery technologies.
Through co-development of CCU projects with CCSL, the company is building business models that effectively utilize and recycle CO2, and also contributing to solving the challenge of global warming.
Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/02/18/marubeni-2/