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What is the role of carbon capture, utilization and storage – CCUS for short – in attaining worldwide climate objectives?

It plays a major role, because CCUS can be used in the short term and at a relatively low cost to prevent large quantities of CO₂ from entering the atmosphere in the first place. The process involves capturing carbon dioxide from exhaust streams, for example. This is an option for heavy industry in particular – with its hard-to-avoid emissions – especially since existing plants can be retrofitted. Or you remove the CO₂ from hydrogen production with steam reforming. This helps to rapidly expand the production of so-called blue hydrogen, which is low emission. It’s also possible to remove CO₂ directly from the air.

What benefits does Endress+Hauser offer customers?

We use our industry know-how and extensive portfolio to support customers along the entire CCUS chain. As a main supplier of the measurement technology, we cover all instrumentation needs, including gas analysis. Our instruments are employed in the separation of CO₂ from gas mixtures, in skids for measuring CO₂ gas flows, for compression and leakage detection in pipelines, and in storage units. We also cover all applications when it comes to CO₂ utilization in industry. And with our engineering tools and services such as remote commissioning, plants can be brought online much faster!