Yara’s carbon capture plant to capture, liquefy up to 800k tons of CO₂ annually

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Yara’s carbon capture plant to capture, liquefy up to 800k tons of CO₂ annually

Fertiliser maker Yara has officially inaugurated the carbon capture facility at its Sluiskil ammonia plant in the Netherlands, billed as Europe’s largest industrial carbon capture facility.

Norwegian chemical company Yara has finally opened Europe’s largest industrial carbon capture facility.

The facility, inaugurated on September 7th in Sluiskil, Netherlands, will now send up to 800,000 tonnes of its carbon dioxide every year to be buried under the seabed in Norway.

So what is carbon capture? It means trapping CO₂ at a factory or power plant before it escapes into the air, then compressing it and locking it away deep underground.

Sluiskil makes ammonia for fertiliser from natural gas, and that process already splits off a stream of almost pure carbon dioxide.

Concentrated streams like this are the cheapest to capture. The IEA puts them at around 15 to 25 dollars a tonne, compared with up to 120 dollars for the diluted exhaust from power stations or cement plants.

At Sluiskil, the CO2 is cooled into a liquid, and two dedicated ships, each carrying 7,200 tonnes, take it across the North Sea to Øygarden in Norway.

From there, Northern Lights injects it 2,600 metres below the seabed into a deep saline rock formation, where it stays permanently.

Over 15 years, that adds up to 12 million tonnes of CO2 kept out of the atmosphere.

And it makes Sluiskil one of the first full-scale projects to move industrial carbon across a border for storage.

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