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PYROCO2 will demonstrate the scalability and economic viability of carbon capture and utilization (CCU) using the innovative PYROCO2 bioprocess. Aim is to produce climate-positive acetone out of industrial CO₂ and renewable electricity derived hydrogen, as a platform for manufacturing chemicals and materials with a negative carbon footprint.

The demonstrator plant to be built in the project will have a capacity of using 10,000 tonnes per year of industrial CO₂ as a raw material, equivalent to the annual CO₂ emissions of 2,200 conventional cars. The PYROCO2 team aims for broad market uptake of its innovative technologies for emissions savings of 17 Mt CO₂eq by 2050.

The PYROCO2 project addresses the Green Deal call topic LC-GD-3-1-2020 - Closing the industrial carbon cycle to combat climate change - Industrial feasibility of catalytic routes for sustainable alternatives to fossil resources, and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101037009.

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