Exploring the Impacts of the Adopted Carbon Capture Approach to the Scottish Chemical Industry and the Wider Scottish Economy

Katris, Antonios and Zanhouo, Abdoul Karim and Agyeman, Stephen Duah and Calvillo, Christian and Corbett, Hannah (2024) Exploring the Impacts of the Adopted Carbon Capture Approach to the Scottish Chemical Industry and the Wider Scottish Economy. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

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Abstract

The UK Climate Change Committee identifies carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) as essential to achieve net zero by 2050 and the UK Government is providing support to the rollout of CCUS in four of UK’s industrial clusters. However, carbon capture can be introduced in industries either post-combustion (post-production more generally) or pre-combustion with a substitution towards low or zero carbon fuels. Each approach has its own capital and energy requirements and therefore impacts the adopting industries in different ways. In this brief we discuss how the Scottish chemical industries, and by extension the wider Scottish economy, may be affected by the introduction of pre- or post-combustion carbon capture. We also discuss the implications of a UK-wide adoption of carbon capture in chemical industries versus unilateral actions by the Scottish chemical sector, while we explore the potential effects of government subsidies aiming to ease some of the price pressures associated with the introduction of carbon capture.

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https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00089223
  • Item type:Report
    ID code:89223
    Dates:
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    30 April 2024
    Published
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Economic Theory
    Department:Strategic Research Themes > Energy
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:15 May 2024 08:48
    Last modified:07 Jun 2024 01:10
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/89223
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