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UK-based carbon capture organisation Carbon Clean has begun capturing carbon from NTPC’s power plant in India, with a view to converting it to methanol and reducing the facility's environmental impact. The project is taking place at NTPC’s 500MW coal-fired power plant (Unit-13) at Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station, in Madhya Pradesh, India, in collaboration with Green Power International. The organisations are expected to use a modified tertiary amine to capture CO2 from the flue gas that the power plant produces, capturing a total of 20 tonnes of CO2 per day. The carbon captured will then be combined with hydrogen to produce 10 tonnes of methanol a day, through a catalytic hydrogenation process. “We are thrilled to see our technology begin to capture carbon from NTPC’s plant and look forward to seeing how the CO2- to-methanol project develops in the future," said Aniruddha Sharma, CEO of Carbon Clean. "This project demonstrates how carbon capture supports industrial decarbonisation, as well as providing opportunities for companies to join the growing circular carbon economy." Often considered a promising environmentally friendly route for combatting CO2 emissions, catalytic hydrogenation can be used to convert CO2 to methanol by reacting hydrogen with CO2 using a catalyst such as nickel, palladium or platinum. Carbon Clean’s CDRMax carbon capture technology can be used with point source gases that contain CO2 concentrations between 3 per cent and 25 per cent by volu...