The reaction in cement production today
The conventional combustion process with fossil fuel produces a lot of carbon dioxide. The CO₂ comes partly from geogenic sources and partly from the fuel itself.
Production with CO₂ upcycling
Alnewa places a plasma field in the exhaust air flow. The plasma converts the CO₂ into a stable, combustible mixture of CO₂ as an inert gas and CO and O₂ as fuel.
The system fires itself with recycled exhaust gases:
The process is then operated with the recycled, combustible mixture. The reaction product from the fuel is almost exclusively CO₂ – which is recycled back into fuel.
Because a large proportion of the CO₂ comes from the geogenic source inherent in the process, the efficiency of the plant does not have to be extremely high in order to replace the fossil fuel.
As the CO₂ produced is continuously recycled, no certificates need to be purchased for the CO₂ that is not emitted.
Fossil fuels are largely being replaced.
Electrical energy must be invested in the process for splitting. However, almost 100% of this comes back as thermal energy.
