CCU - a building block of sustainable carbon supply

Greeting

The technical and economic challenges for achieving the climate protection targets in Germany are immense. So far, the energy turnaround has essentially been an "electricity turnaround", but the other sectors must be increasingly involved if the goal of reducing CO₂-emissions in Germany to net zero by 2050.

Carbon will remain absolutely necessary for the manufacture of many industrial products in the future. Abandoning carbon can therefore not be the goal of a comprehensive energy transition, but rather the reduction of CO₂-emissions in production processes and throughout the product life cycle. Closed carbon loops will be crucial for a long-term sustainable supply of carbon to industry.

CCU (Carbon Capture and Usage) will play a decisive role in this: Basic chemicals and fuels from CO₂ and hydrogen, which will increasingly be produced from renewable sources, serve as a link between the sectors.

In our workshop we would like to give an overview of different approaches for the capture and use of CO₂. Above all, we want to show how CCU can succeed in reducing CO₂-emissions while reducing CO₂ as a sustainable carbon supplier for industry.

Tilman Bechthold
Chairman of the DGMK Department for the Conversion of Carbon Carriers

Program