SeaCURE Sea Carbon Uptake and REmoval
UK government funded project to develop, design and implement a novel maine CDR approach, and holistically understand its potential
SeaCURE has developed and demonstrated the components of a marine-based Carbon Dioxide Removal technology, with the potential to be applied at very large scales. The system makes use of the natural behaviour of the carbon cycle, i.e. the ‘sucking’ of CO2 out of the atmosphere in response to the atmosphere-ocean difference in CO2 concentration generated by rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Designed to operate at a scale of 100 tonnes/year CO2 removal from the atmosphere per year, the plant acts as the central activity enabling developing and testing state of-the-art approaches to verify that CO2 removal and carefully building the evidence based required for larger-scale plant deployment.
Led by Halloran at the University of Exeter, SeaCURE is a collaboration between world leading academic experts (in ocean carbon and climate monitoring and modelling, green infrastructure (Exeter, PML, and Brunel University of London), life cycle analysis (Exeter) and engineering and technology-focused SMEs with expertise in carbon removal, water processing and plant design and build (Eliquo Hydrok).
