INovative FLUE gas emissioNs capture and use plant for hard-to-abate industries applied to the CERamic sector
Project The LIFE inFLUEnCER project aims to zeroing CO2 and GHGs production in hard-to-abate sectors. This will beachieved by installing a demonstrative and innovative CO2 Capture and Use (CCU) system at a ceramic group that enables for the first time to capture CO2 and atmospheric pollutants (SO2, SO3, NOX) from the flue gas to fix them into value added products to be used as secondary raw materials for different industrial applications, according to a circular economy approach: to validate their marketability, these secondary raw materials will be tested in ceramic, cosmetic and nutraceutical products. Results of the project will be relevant also for other hard-to-abate industries since the great versatility of the plant design makes it possible to adapt it to different types of flue gases from different industrial processes: to validate the replicability of the technology,small-scale tests will be carried out in the agro-livestock and metallurgical sectors.