siliconindia | | JULY 20248The world is undergoing a serious climate crisis that revolves around the problem of carbon emissions. Various sources have to reduce their emissions to mitigate climatic change. Carbon capturing technologies provide prominent alternatives for capturing CO produced by industries or directly from the atmosphere and preventing it from increasing global warming. Over many years, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has been an afterthought in climate strategies but now appears as a key weapon against climate change. Rather than just addressing emissions at source, unlike traditional methods, CCS goes deeper into solving this issue by recovering and safely storing carbon dioxide already present in the atmosphere or produced by industrial activities. A departure from future emission reduction only, it therefore seeks actively to extract and store existing carbon; thus becoming essential for global objectives of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 through CCS targeting historical emissions instead of new ones alone.Advanced Carbon Capture TechnologiesAmong the most outstanding advancements in CCS technologies is the progress made in CO capture techniques which are aimed at tackling emissions from sources such as power plants, industrial facilities and direct air capture systems. Various significant strides have been made in this direction to develop new materials and processes that enhance carbon dioxide adsorption efficiency, decrease energy consumption and reduce costs. Main technology areas are:Chemical Absorption: This process utilizes a solvent for absorbing CO from flue gas. Afterwards, the solvent can be regenerated for subsequent use hence continuous CO capture.Membrane Separation: It depends on specifically engineered membranes to selectively remove carbon dioxide from flue gas because this compound diffuses through the membrane more easily than other gases.Cryogenics: Involves cooling of CO into liquid state with it subsequently being stored in tanks or transported through pipelines.One very encouraging development is the Chemical Looping Technology, which could obviate the requirement for separate carbon capture systems. The approach employs metal oxides to shuttle oxygen from air to fuel resulting in flue gas that consists almost entirely of CO. In its nascent stage, chemical looping may be more efficient and less energy-intensive than conventional chemical absorption. It also boasts retrofittability to existing power plants and industrial processes, thus making it more practicality advantageous. As of now, chemical absorption is expected to emerge as the dominant CCUS technology in the near future.The growing focus of Blue Hydrogen is another transformative development. As the use of CCUS becomes more widespread, companies will increasingly be keen to know what they have to do to hit their net-zero goals. That has since triggered a large-scale deployment of CCS for blue hydrogen production-a low-cost route to achieving net-zero emissions. The industry is expected to set the massive future demand for CCUS technologies-natural-gas producers, especially are where lying most of the oil and gas, but beyond that today. Blue hydrogen provides a consistent energy source as well as emission reduction and is filling the gap until green H2 has taken over.Interaction with these technological leaps, research into renewable energy goes on. While scientists and experts continue to push the boundaries of technological breakthroughs with advanced solar panels, more efficient wind turbines and innovative energy storage systems, EDITORIAL EXCLUSIVEINDIA'S RISE WITH CARBON CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY
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