Humber Zero CANSOLV greenhouse gas emissions

Humber Zero is a government-supported multi-billion-pound project to decarbonise industry in the Immingham industrial area in northern Lincolnshire. The project will incorporate post-combustion carbon capture and the production of hydrogen. The project aims to prevent up to eight million tonnes of CO₂ from being released as a greenhouse gas.

In a statement, Jonathan Briggs, VPI project director for Humber Zero, said: “Industrial decarbonisation at scale using carbon capture and storage will be essential if the UK is to achieve its ambition of a Net Zero economy by 2050. Humber Zero’s goal of decarbonising the Immingham industrial site will capture up to eight million tonnes of carbon from critical industry and make a significant contribution to toward reaching that goal.”

Humber Zero: decarbonising an industrial cluster

CANSOLV will be retrofitted to the VPI Immingham power station stacks that emit carbon-rich flue gas. Shell’s Alliance partner for CANSOLV CO₂ technology, Technip Energies, will support the design of the capture unit and the pilot plant. The technology is expected to capture 95 per cent or more of the CO₂ in the gas, allowing it to be compressed, transported and stored in geological structures under the seabed.