Low-carbon Sodium Biocarbonate
Since operations started in summer 2021, Tata Chemicals Europe carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) unit has significantly reduced the carbon emissions being produced at the Northwich site. The CCU is the first of its kind and the largest in the UK, designed and delivered in partnership with Pentair, a leading supplier of CO2 capture and purification technologies.
Carbon dioxide captured from energy generation emissions, is purified to food and pharmaceutical grade. It is then used as raw material in the manufacture of sodium bicarbonate and is exported to over 60 countries around the world. Much of the sodium bicarbonate exported is used in haemodialysis to treat people living with kidney disease.
This plant is an important step in decarbonising industrial activity and recieved investment by the UK government to support their target of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, whilst also securing a sustainable supply of carbon dioxide – a key raw material critical to the growth of the business internationally.
Already one of the most efficient power plants in the UK is currently producing half the amount of carbon dioxide per kWh of electricity generated compared to a typical gas fired power station.
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£16.7m project with a £4.2m grant from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) through the Carbon Capture and Utilisation Demonstration (“CCUD”) Programme
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The plant would provide employment for about 57 full time equivalent staff, comprising a mix of skilled operatives, technical engineers, and administrative staff as well as indirect support jobs in the service, haulage and associated chemical industry both locally and further afield.
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Capable of capturing and producing up to 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year (equivalent of taking 20,000 cars off the road)
