The project will undertake a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) Study on a process to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% from the Thames Refinery site based in Silvertown, London and operated by Tate & Lyle Sugars (TLS) . The Thames Refinery is home to the largest sugar refinery in Europe, with a capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per year, and sugar has been refined at the site since 1878\. Thames Refinery uses boilers fired with natural gas to generate steam and power for the refining operations. These boilers emit carbon dioxide in their flue gases. TLS is seeking to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050 and this project has the potential to make a major contribution to achieving that goal. The hope is that the technology being assessed in this study can be deployed at the Thames Refinery site and also at other sugar refineries around the world. Furthermore, the technology can be deployed to significantly reduce the emissions from a range of other emitters such as the cement, steel and power generation industries, and it can also be used to remove CO2 that is already in the air. The project will be undertaken by a consortium led by TLS and two other partners, Origen Power and Cranfield University. Origen Power is developing a technology that can remove carbon dioxide from fossil fuelled boiler flue gases and also from ambient air, while Cranfield University will be contributing their expertise in calcium looping, the approach that is being applied in this project.The project will undertake a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) Study on a process to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% from the Thames Refinery site based in Silvertown, London and operated by Tate & Lyle Sugars (TLS) .

The Balanced Energy Networks project will deliver both a physical and digital network to integrate systems that will enable the balancing of heating, cooling, electricity, and carbon, in a way that minimises costs. Addressing the energy trilemma - delivering security of supply, at low cost, and with low carbon emissions - is a key requirement for achieving a sustainable and prosperous economy. The Balanced Energy Networks project will build a working demonstration of the integrated system at London South Bank University (LSBU). This will involve the construction of an inter-seasonal thermal storage system to balance the production of heating and cooling throughout the year. It will also create a bi-directional network to balance electricity supply and demand. Attached to these physical and information and control networks will be a range of innovative technologies including one which can both generate electricity and remove carbon dioxide from the air, allowing the overall system to be carbon neutral.

CHESS is a novel technology which generates carbon electricity while also removing CO2 from the atmosphere and producing lime. This entirely new process uses natural gas and limestone to produce electricity, lime and a pure stream of carbon dioxide. The lime is used to absorb further CO2 from the air.

"The CHESS process - Technology and Market Validation" project will undertake a detailed study of a process that uses natural gas to generate electricity in a way that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The project will assess the technical, commercial, social and environmental issues associated with the CHESS process and develop a collaborative R&D plan to deliver a 100-kW prototype to demonstrate the process.