Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture: emerging techniques

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Emerging techniques are novel techniques for an industrial activity that, if commercially developed, could provide one of the following:

a higher general level of protection of the environment

at least the same level of protection of the environment and higher cost savings than existing best available techniques (BAT)

You can fit post-combustion carbon capture (PCC) plants to new or existing power and energy from waste (EfW) plants to capture the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the flue gas.

stored in permanent underground geological storage facilities

These environmental regulators (referred to as ‘the regulators’) worked with the UK CCS Research Centre, industry and other stakeholders to develop the evidence review which informs this guidance:

Northern Ireland Environment Agency (an executive agency of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs)

Except where regulations apply, this guidance for emerging techniques is not a regulatory requirement but identifies best practice to address important environmental issues.

The regulators expect operators to follow this guidance, or to propose an alternative approach to provide the same or greater level of protection for the environment.

For carbon capture developments in Scotland, use the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) guidance on carbon capture and storage.

operators when designing their plants and preparing their application for an environmental permit

regulatory staff when determining environmental permit applications

any other organisation or members of the public who want to understand how the environmental regulations and standards are being applied

The guidance covers both new plants and retrofits to existing plants.

This guidance covers PCC plants that use amine-based technologies to capture CO2 from the flue gases of:

power and combined heat and power (CHP) plants fuelled by natural gas and biomass

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