Technology to turn factory emissions into baking powder

An Indian company has found a new way to reduce CO2 in the environment by turning it into baking soda.

CarbonClean is using new technology to capture more than 66,000 tons of carbon a year emitted from coal-fired boilers at a coal-fired power plant in the Indian city of Tuticorin and use it to make baking soda (NaHCO3), also known as baking powder, Popular Mechanics reported.

CarbonClean converts CO2 from power plants into baking soda. Photo: Huffington Post.

Like most CO capture technologies₂ Unlike CarbonClean, which uses a solvent to trap CO₂and convert it into a less active form. The most common industrial solvent for CO capture₂is amine. Meanwhile, the solvent CarbonClean uses is a new chemical that is more effective, cheaper and less wasteful.

The economic efficiency of the new solvent helps CarbonClean build a CO2 capture plant.₂ The world's first to operate without government subsidies. The baking soda produced is used in many fields such as detergent, glass and pharmaceutical production.

CarbonClean estimates that about 5-10% of the carbon emitted from thermal power plants could be stored using its technology. If thermal power plants around the world adopted this technology, the amount of CO₂Future emissions into the atmosphere will be significantly reduced.

According to VNE