by A new million -out project that could save the way for the removal of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere using sea water with sea water has started in Weymouth.
The Seacure Pilot plant, a Carbon Capture project, is in operation in the Sea Life Center after a grant of 3 million GBP of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry by the NET Zero innovation portfolio.
The project will remove carbon from sea water and transport it to a location in the Sea Life Center for processing.
It is headed by the University of Exeter in cooperation with Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Brunel University London and the industrial partner Eliquo Hydrok.
The echo For the first time, details of the project revealed in 2022.
The Seacure system is supposedly similar to when recording the CO₂ bubbles from a bubble drink and uses renewable energy to remove carbon from seawater and then remove it back into the ocean, where it replenishes the lost CO2 in a natural way by sucking carbon from the atmosphere.
Tamsin Mutton-McKnight, General Manager at Sea Life Weymouth, said: “In seas life, we are passionate about the sea environment and the general health of our planet. The committed and immersive experiences of marine life inspire people and are invaluable to awareness, preservation and creation of future ambassadors for the preservation of the waters To sharpen world.
“We are therefore very happy to be involved in this important project that has the potential to make an enormous positive difference in the preservation of the future.”
When the project got the starting shot, Professor Paul Halloran, project manager and part of the Global Systems Institute of the Global System of Exeter said: “We are very happy to have the opportunity to test this technology in the real world and to be part of the solution for one of the biggest challenges for our planet.
“The demonstration system will process 3,000 liters of sea water per minute and estimately 100 tons of CO₂ per year.
“The goal is to find out which obstacles there could be to scale this, ultimately to a size similar to the current global carbon emissions.
“Since it uses sea water and could be positioned off the coast, Seacure would not compete with other land uses. Therefore, it is possible to operate in a scale that corresponds to the size of the challenge of climate change.
“However, we still have a lot to do – and ask questions – before.”
If the pilot is successful, the analysis of the project suggests that future plants would be most effective if they are built off the coast and decarbonizing sea water in large scales in the open ocean.
The natural concentration of CO2 in sea water is much higher than that in the air, so that stripping CO2 from a cubic meter of sea water corresponds to the strip of CO2 from 150 cubic meters.
The CO2-abandoned sea water, which is released, is located within the pH area (acid), which is made possible for the British tap water, and has a CO2 concentration between tap water and sea water. The seafarers will monitor the water in all phases of the process to ensure that it corresponds to the regulations set by the environmental authority.
