{"id":55746,"date":"2018-08-20T07:26:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T05:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=55746"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:33:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:33:35","slug":"co2-captured-by-drax-could-be-used-to-carbonize-beverages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/co2-captured-by-drax-could-be-used-to-carbonize-beverages\/","title":{"rendered":"CO2<\/sub> captured by Drax could be used to carbonize beverages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some pub goers may have felt a bit flat earlier this summer when a shortage of carbon dioxide gas threatened the availability of beer in Britain\u2019s pubs.<\/p>\n

But now the country\u2019s biggest power station has met with the British Beer & Pub Association to see if it can keep the pep in the nation\u2019s pints.<\/p>\n

Drax, which owns Britain\u2019s biggest power station, near Selby in North Yorkshire, is about to begin a pilot trialing the first boenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project of its kind in Europe, which could make the renewable power generated at Drax carbon negative.<\/p>\n

If successful the BECCS project could also help to secure future access to CO2 for the U.K.\u2019s breweries and pubs.<\/p>\n

During a six month trial, due to get underway in the next few months, a metric ton of CO2 could be captured and stored each day from one of the power station\u2019s biomass-fueled generating units.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s enough to produce the fizz for 32,000 pints of beer a day\u2014equivalent to 5.7 million over the course of the six month project, which is more than enough to put the bubbles in a pint for everyone in Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

If successful, the technology being trialed could be scaled up to capture even more CO2 at the power station\u2014the largest single site renewable power generator in the country.<\/p>\n

Will Gardiner, Drax Group CEO, said, \u201cWe\u2019re excited to be discussing our BECCS project with the BBPA. This pilot not only has the potential to ensure the U.K. meets its climate targets, but for the carbon captured to also help to keep the nation\u2019s beer from going flat\u2014and we\u2019d certainly raise a glass to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brigid Simmonds, British Beer & Pub Association CEO, said, \u201cBeer is the nation\u2019s favorite alcoholic beverage and on average pubs serve as much as 10 million pints of beer per day, so the recent shortfall of CO2 was most unwelcome. We hope that these discussions with Drax Group and the potential to increase access to a new source of CO2 in the U.K. will help ensure that a shortage does not happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enabling other industries to use the CO2 produced from Drax\u2019s renewable power generation, has the potential to allow businesses to use the carbon dioxide from a renewable source without contributing additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere\u2014making their processes carbon neutral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some pub goers may have felt a bit flat earlier this summer when a shortage of carbon dioxide gas threatened the availability of beer in Britain\u2019s pubs. But now the country\u2019s biggest power station has met with the British Beer & Pub Association to see if it can keep the pep in the nation\u2019s pints. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,5571],"tags":[10744,10743],"supplier":[14808,7980],"class_list":["post-55746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-co2-based","tag-carboncapture","tag-useco2","supplier-british-beer-pub-association-bbpa","supplier-drax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55746"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=55746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}