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Turning black industries green with carbon capture

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Published: June 9th, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Sinopec refinery in Jiangxi: The oil company wants to capture CO2 and store it away.
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It is a dream of many managers working on a better environmental balance: Simply separating the CO2 from the other exhaust gases at the end of the production process and disposing of it. It would be much easier to achieve the climate targets that way. This would require a technology that effectively separates CO2 from other gases. Companies are not the only ones who would find this option a good fit. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), part of the emissions must be filtered out of the atmosphere in order to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees.

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