"Carbon capture technology for CO2 shortage"
We know that- Carbon Capture technology how to work. It involves the process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide before it is released into the atmosphere. This technology can capture uo to 90% of carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels in electricity generation and industrial processes. Trapping the carbon dioxide at its emission source and transporting it to a storage space and isolating it.
Sometimes carbon capture technology is called as "point source carbon capture technology". The recent spike in natural gas prices has closed many plants that produced fertilizer in the UK to sending a shockwave through lots of other industries. UK is currently suffering from the shortage of the gas, which experts will affect a variet of industries,most notably food and drink. Distilleries and Breweries produce the gas as a waste product with high purity once any water has been removed. In other industries like Cenent works, steel works, they require high Carbon dioxide concentrations. Building smaller facilities that just Capture the CO2 from individual factories and plants would be a cheaper way to create a new source of the gas.
Main reason of shortage of CO2 gas is ammonia fertilizer which is produced from the Hydrogen and Nitrogen gas, and the latter comes from breaking down natural gas. Co2 gas is the byproduct in this process which is used in many industries, from carbonating soft drinks to euthanising livestock.
The carbon dioxide in solid form can be used to transport and store temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals includingg the Pfizer COVID -19 vaccine. The scarcity of carbon dioxide has caused havoc in UK supply chains, threatening shortages of meat, Alcoholic and Fizzy drinks. Trap it in high pressure bubbles in sweets and you get popping candy. Freeze it and we get dry ice which is used in medical fields. It may seem surprising that carbon dioxide- the greenhouse gas heating our world also keeps certain essential industries functioning.
There are many technologies which can capture carbon from power station chimneys or directly from the air are being developed, but they aren't available at the scale needed. As it becomes more important to reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere or if you needed to produce the gas in remote locations with large renewable energy sources, direct air capture could become a viable technology, but at the moment there are CO2 sources that are more concentrated and also cheaper to harness. CO2 concentration of around 10% in power station exhaust is much greater than that of air, capturing the CO2 would still be a costly way of purifying the gas using current technologies. You also need to remove the water vapour in the exhaust which require more energy.
There are many number of companies across the world, including one in Switzerland and another in Canada, that can already carry out the process of direct air capture (to take CO2 from the atmosphere). In theory, it could turn a problem into a valuable resource, particularly in developing countries with little other natural wealth.
The shortage of Carbon dioxide is affected the food and drinking products industry. You can now buy chemicals and building materials that started life as CO2 molecules instead of fossil fuels. The mineral aggregates actually capture more carbon than is used to produce them.
In the next 30 years, many industries which are depends upon the carbon dioxide gas needs to consider direct air capture technology capable of pulling the greenhouse gas out of the air, as a source of carbon dioxide gas. There are many products which are also needs carbon dioxide gas will have to pass on these cost which is increased due to shortage of carbon dioxide. The Carbon dioxide which are captured should be stored in industrial steel tanks on the same site as the power plant CO2 came from or the factory where it might be used and not underground.
As more of these Carbon dioxide utilization technologies emerge, demand for the gas will increase and so will the need for more localized production. The future is about turning a waste into a commodity.