LEILAC: Low Cost CO2 Capture for the Cement and Lime Industries

The LEILAC project will apply a revolutionary carbon capture technology to the cement and lime industries. It aims to enable the capture of unavoidable process CO 2 from limestone calcination for no energy cost and no extra capital cost (apart from compression). It is being developed by a consortium in a €21 M five-year Horizon 2020 project. A 240 t/d pilot will be built at HeidelbergCement's plant in Lixhe, Belgium, demonstrating that 95% of a plant's process CO 2 emissions could be captured (around 60% of a plant's total direct CO 2 emissions), and on-going R&D activities are reducing the uncertainties and risks involved.