Led by: Severn Trent Water
Partners: Brunel University, United Utilities, Southern Water
The water sector has a long history of renewable energy generation, significantly reducing reliance on grid-imported electricity, benefitting the environment, and keeping customer bills low. To extract the renewable energy, biogas is combusted in Combined Heat and Power engines (CHP), and this releases unavoidable CO2 emissions. Severn Trent Water (STW) working with Clarke Energy and Carbon Capture Machine, will develop a new technology to reduce and reuse CO2 emissions from CHPs. By demonstrating this first-of-its-kind technology on an industrial scale at a STW site in Derby, carbon will be removed and converted into useful eco-friendly products such as paint and fertiliser.
As well as the technology itself and its potential to unlock future innovation across the industry, the project engages with the supply chain and will be a pioneering example of the circular economy in action. United Utilities, Southern Water and Scottish Water will contribute operational expertise to ensure the project delivers maximum customer benefit. Independent support and expertise from Brunel University will lend external validation and monitor the benefits of the project for the wider society.
“This Transform project will trial first-of-its-kind technology at a Severn Trent Water site in Derby to remove carbon from Combined Heat and Power (CHP) exhausts and turn it into eco-friendly products – the net zero, circular economy in action. Together with our partners Clarke Energy, Carbon Capture Market and Brunel University, we could unlock a key technological innovation on the race to Net Zero.”
– Pete Vale, Carbon Economy Engineer, Severn Trent Water
