As COP29 progesses against a background of floods in Europe and droughts in Africa, the need to reduce our carbon emissions and the level of carbon in the atmosphere becomes increasingly evident. As a technology company, this in our DNA.
The raison d’être of our TORBED technology was to minimise resource use and enhance efficiency across all of our many applications. We see this across a broad spectrum. The first stage in any Carbon Capture and Storage process is gas scrubbing: introducing carbon rich gas streams to a sorbent, either wet or dry, that can “capture” the carbon. In dry gas scrubbing for direct air capture or tackling large scale emissions, a TORBED processor will maximise the effectiveness of sorbents (don’t just take our word for this see our recent news item about tests by the University of Newcastle).
Beyond gas scrubbing, facilitating circular economy transactions, taking wastes and deriving useful products from them, allows the TORBED processor to be used in a range of carbon reducing processes. This stretches from recovering paper sludge and calcining it to produce energy and a cement substitute, to calcining waste clays (Demolition rubble and construction spoil), also to produce a low-carbon cement substitute, to processing waste biomass (rice husk, oil palm empty fruit bunch).