Arriving at the offices of Doosan Babcock, Renfrew, in an electric vehicle, Charles (pictured above, in 2017) was shown the carbon-capture machine CycloneCC, which its inventors at Carbon Clean describe as the world’s smallest device of its type.
Iain Tobin, Carbon Clean’s chief corporate officer, said of the royal visitor: “He was very impressed. He’s genuinely interested in what we’re trying to achieve, which is to bring cost-effective carbon capture technology to hard-to-abate industrial sectors.”
Charles, who is also the Baron of Renfrew, asked questions of staff including Aniruddha Sharma, Carbon Clean’s co-founder and chief executive, and James Hall, the head of research at the company, who demonstrated the vast difference in size between the old carbon capture technology and the new CycloneCC.
Carbon was previously captured using a 15m device, which saw the pollutant mixed with a chemical to extract the carbon from the other gases.
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