Aligning with Department of Science and Technology’s CCUS Roadmap 2025, CCUS technologies at scale will achieve higher readiness levels in end-use applications across five industrial sectors, including, power, steel, cement, refineries and chemicals. 

About CCUS

• CCUS: CCUS involves the capture of CO2, generally from large point sources like power generation or industrial facilities that use either fossil fuels or biomass as fuel.
  • If not being used on-site, the captured CO2 is compressed and transported to be used in a range of applications, or injected into deep geological formations such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs or saline aquifers.
• Technologies: Chemical Solvent-based Absorption, Cryogenic Sepeartion, Direct Air Capture, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Bio Energy Carbon Capture and Storage etc. 
• Need: 
  • Tackling emissions in hard-to-abate sectors, particularly heavy industries like cement, steel or chemicals.
  • Enablement of least-cost low-carbon hydrogen production, which can support decarbonisation of different sectors. 
  • 2050 global net zero target requires at least 1 billion tonnes per year CCUS capacity by 2030. 
  • Making products competitive in external markets in the wake of carbon-related tariffs like CBAM.
• Challenges: Insufficient technological maturity, prohibitive cost along its entire value chain (especially carbon capture), limited testing and scaling of technologies and insufficient funding.