• Partnerships with international experts are needed to scale up carbon capture, utilisation, and storage in Denmark.
• Carbon Clean's technology is compact, making it easier to adopt in space-limited locations.

Carbon capture expert Carbon Clean has joined forces with Sønderborg Varme and Thisted Varmeforsyning, two leading district heating companies in Denmark, to explore carbon capture opportunities.

The companies will apply for funding from the Danish Energy Agency’s CCS Fund, which helps projects and initiatives reduce carbon emissions. Through this partnership, Carbon Clean will integrate its cutting-edge carbon capture technology into Denamark's energy sector.

Carbon Clean’s CycloneCC technology will be deployed at three waste-to-energy sites. This is part of capturing over 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) annually, with financing support from Scandinavian Energy Contractors (SEC), reinforcing Denmark's goal of reducing CO₂ by 2.3 million tonnes per year by 2030. To this end, the team has already started work on delivery models, permits, and technical integration with suppliers.

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Aniruddha Sharma, Chair and CEO of Carbon Clean, said: “We are thrilled to collaborate with Sønderborg Varme and Thisted Varmeforsyning to advance their carbon reduction goals with the first deployment of this innovative carbon capture technology in Denmark.

"Our modular ‘carbon capture in a box’ solution can be delivered in just weeks, bringing a new era of decarbonisation to the Danish market, a market that presents a number of policy incentives for carbon capture players like ourselves.”

Its technology uses rotating packed beds (RPBs) and a proprietary solvent to improve efficiency. Oftentimes, the energy-from-waste sector experiences space as a limiting factor, but this technology is very well developed to reduce the size and cost of carbon capture plants by up to 50%.

Carbon Clean's partners, Sønderborg Varme and Thisted Varmeforsyning, say carbon capture is an important step towards CO₂-neutral energy systems, where excess heat in district heating networks is used.

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Thomas Kristensen, Chairman of the Board of Thisted Varmeforsyning, said: "At Thisted Varmeforsyning, we are proud to be part of this consortium as part of our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to an absolute minimum. We have been working on carbon capture for years and have found the best possible partners to help us realise our ambitions.

"We were the first Danish waste incinerator to install and operate a pilot project on carbon capture, and now we can be among the first to go full scale. Denmark has the potential to become a key player in global CCUS, but no country can do it alone, so we need to bring international competencies into play – and that is exactly what we are doing in this partnership.”

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Source: Carbon Clean