Development of separation/capture technology for low-concentration CO2 contained in industrial discharge gas: Aiming to realizing a carbon neutral society
A project that a program-specific junior associate professor Hirotoshi Sakamoto of iCeMS Kitagawa Lab participates was selected by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO) as a Green Innovation Fund project, and started in this October.
The project, which is jointly run by Showa Denko KK, Nippon Steel Corporation and Japan’s six national universities (Oita, Osaka, Kyoto, Chiba, Nagoya and Hokkaido), aims to separate/capture CO2 efficiently from low-pressure/low-concentration (atmospheric pressure; CO2 concentration: 10% or lower) discharge gas by using the technologies owned by these two companies and six universities. With the target of achieving an innovatively low cost of 2,000-yen level per ton, this technology is slated for social implementation in the late 2030s. Furthermore, SDK aims to establish a business model that reuses/sells captured CO2 as raw materials of chemical products.
