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CCUS Innovation 2.0 competition: Turning Waste Carbon Dioxide into Value for the Surfactants Industry
Key documents from Econic Technologies Limited’s Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) Innovation 2.0 project.
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Turning Waste Carbon Dioxide into Value for the Surfactants Industry
Project Lead: Econic Technologies Limited
This project, delivered in partnership with Unilever, investigated sustainable non-ionic surfactants, a component of cleaning products, based on utilisation of waste carbon dioxide. The use of Econic’s catalyst and process technology in the production of non-ionic surfactants allows captured waste carbon dioxide to replace up to 40 wt% of traditional fossil fuel-based and palm oil-derived raw materials in a process that can be retrofitted onto existing production plants.
Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) Innovation 2.0 programme: successful projects - GOV.UK
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