Carbon-dioxide removal has the potential to be a huge market – as well as a climate-saving enterprise. It offers a way to stop the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere – even possibly reverse it, while creating valuable products utilising CO2 as a raw material. VTT offers innovative carbon capture, utilisation and storage solutions for different industrial sectors.
Key facts: carbon capture, utilisation and storage
CCU and CCS are crucial technologies in climate change mitigation. We develop solutions to benefit industry and the transport and energy sectors.
Chemicals, fuels and materials can be produced without fossil resources.
There are only few carbon negative technologies that can be deployed today in industrial scale.
Currently, the global economy is too heavily based on fossil hydrocarbons, which can no longer be utilised at the current pace if we want to reach climate targets. All transport fuels and most of the chemical products could be produced by using recycled CO2 and clean hydrogen. Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU), and carbon capture and storage (CCS), combined with power-to-X and clean hydrogen technologies are the key technologies in reaching these targets.
New products and business with carbon capture, utilisation and storage technologies
CCU offers novel solutions to utilise carbon dioxide as a raw material, which helps to replace fossil fuels and chemicals and even produce entirely new products like “food without fields”. CCS technologies on the other hand help create net negative greenhouse gas emissions.
CCS can also be combined with carbon neutral CO2 sources: Capturing and storing CO2 from bioenergy or biogenic exhaust gases or directly from the air leads to net negative greenhouse gas emissions from life cycle perspective. With carbon capture and storage, we can utilise fossil fuels during the transition to carbon neutral future processes.
Innovative concepts to cut down emissions with CCU and CCS
We have modelled, evaluated, developed, and demonstrated new innovative CCU and CCS concepts for the most important sources of global CO2 emissions. We’ve created solutions for heavy industry, transport sector, electricity and heat production as well as for agriculture and forestry.
We help industries to reduce emissions and save resources by assessing, modelling and demonstrating new concepts, processes and technologies.
Read more about our work with CCU and CCS:
- Our solutions for negative emission technologies (NETs)
- Results of Carbon Capture and Storage Research Programme coordinated by VTT
- Dissertation about significant CO2 emission reductions in blast furnace-based steel mills
- Utilising biogenic carbon dioxide emissions and clean hydrogen to produce speciality chemicals in Forest CUMP project with industry partners
- Dissertation about direct capture of CO2 from air
Carbon capture and utilisation – Unlocking value from emissions
What are the essential steps for transforming CO2 emissions into a valuable resource? Our white paper offers actionable insights and strategies to help you navigate the CO2 utilisation landscape and maximize the potential of CCU technologies.
Our solutions for different industries
- Electric kiln for cement and lime production enabling efficient CO2 capture
- CO2 capture based on absorption in carbonate solutions
- CCU for power-to-fuels (P2X) to produce carbon neutral transportation fuels
- Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbons (FT)
- Synthetic natural gas (SNG)
- Methanol (MeOH)
- CCS by oxy-combustion (including VTT’s pilot scale CFB combustion and gasification infra)
- “Negative emissions” with bioenergy and CCS (bio-CCS, BECCS)
- Food grade CO2 by Direct Air Capture (DAC)
- Solutions to enhance carbon sinks in forestry and soils
Plant for converting gases into fuels and chemical products
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions about carbon capture, storage and utilization
What are CCS and CCU?
CCS involves capturing carbon dioxide emissions for underground storage, while CCU converts captured CO₂ into fuels, chemicals or materials for industrial use.
How does VTT support CCS and CCU?
VTT develops capture solutions (absorbents, membranes, oxy-combustion), models processes, pilots site-specific installations, and assesses lifecycle and economic feasibility.
Which sectors can benefit?
Industry and energy and transport sectors can use VTT’s CCS/CCU solutions to reduce emissions and generate new products.
What is bio-CCS?
Bio-CCS (or BECCS) captures CO₂ from bioenergy sources, like biomass power and stores it permanently, enabling negative emissions and carbon removal.
Can CO₂ be used commercially?
Yes. VTT supports producing e‑fuels (e.g., synthetic hydrocarbons via Fischer-Tropsch), plastics, specialty chemicals and recycled carbon products using captured CO₂ and renewable hydrogen.
This FAQ is written by AI and checked by a human.
How to work with us
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