The UK’s largest carbon distillation project will convert 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the highly efficient chemical sodium bicarbonate.
Capturing that amount of carbon dioxide would mean taking 20,000 cars off the road and would help the UK achieve its target of zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
Sodium bicarbonate can be used for nutritional and medical purposes as baking soda and in dialysis machines and pharmaceuticals.
Tata Chemicals Europe has opened its new plant in Northwich with the aim of reducing the company’s carbon footprint by more than 10%.
The methane gas-fired power plant at the carbon dioxide facility will be distilled from chimneys and cooled and liquefied before being cleaned.
The cost of this plant is two million pounds, out of which four million pounds was given by the British government.
The process the company will use to convert carbon dioxide into sodium bicarbonate is patented in the UK.
