Environmental capacity for industrial clusters
Investigation into the environmental capacity for deploying carbon capture and hydrogen production decarbonisation technology in key English industrial clusters.
Documents
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These documents present findings of government sponsored work in 2021 to 2023 by the Environment Agency (EA) to investigate the environmental capacity for deploying carbon capture and hydrogen production technology in key English industrial clusters.
They include:
- a snapshot view of industry plans at a cluster level
- a full review of evidence on water availability and quality
- a partial review of air quality and the risk of flooding
- impacts that deployment may have on the receiving environment, including habitats
- consideration of how these factors will be influenced by a changing climate
This work focused on the Humber and Teesside industrial clusters (the East Coast industrial cluster) due to their sizeable contribution to UK’s annual industrial carbon dioxide emissions.
Work in future phases will complete our review of environmental capacity issues in the Teesside industrial cluster by considering air quality.
Useful links
- Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture: best available techniques (BAT)
- Digital twin of an industrial cluster: a proof of concept on the Humber Estuary
- Digital twin of an industrial cluster: a proof of concept on the Humber Estuary - YouTube
- Environment Agency guidance on production of ‘blue’ hydrogen
- Environment Agency abstraction licensing strategies – find out how much water is available in your area
- Meeting our future water needs: a national framework for water resources
Guidance and information related to discharges to air:
- Air emissions risk assessment for your environmental permit
- Environmental permitting: air dispersion modelling reports
- UKCCS Research Community - BAT information for CCS
- Hazard ranking of substances for development of EALs for substance emissions to air from carbon capture technologies
- Environment Agency recommendations for the assessment and regulation of impacts to air quality from amine-based post-combustion carbon capture plants