CARBON CAPTURE UTILIZATION AND STORAGE LABORATORY (CCUS-IITM)

The CCUS lab at IIT Madras brings together a large interdisciplinary group of experts from the institute and its international partners to intensify research efforts and to make technological breakthroughs that would enable CO2 capture and separation from flue gas like mixtures, its utilization to produce liquid fuels like methanol or intermediate platform chemicals like syngas (CO + H2), and its long-term storage under the ocean beds. CO2 capture and separation from gaseous mixtures, its utilization to produce liquid fuels like methanol or intermediate platform chemicals like syngas (CO + H2) or upcycling to any value-added product and its long-term sequestration or storage, are widely accepted means to decarbonization. Intensification of fundamental and applied research in each of these directions with focus on translational technological breakthroughs to scale upwards on the technological readiness levels is a critical need of the hour. Rapid deployment of such technologies will enable zero emission, carbon neutral operation of our industries and also to meet the nation’s global commitment to drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emission intensity by the end of this decade. Addressing the current scientific and technological challenges in each of these domains require concerted efforts of interdisciplinary teams of academic researchers, industrial partners and technocrats. The CCUS lab at IIT Madras brings together a large interdisciplinary group of experts from the institute and its international and industrial partners to intensify research efforts and to make technological breakthroughs in each of the verticals of CCUS.