Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) enables the substitution of fossil carbon in carbon-dependent sectors. With their solutions, the companies Dioxycle, D-CRBN and Twelve are committed to a society with renewable carbon.
230 participants from 27 countries worldwide took part in the Innovation Award ceremony at the CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals Conference 2024 in Cologne and online on April 23. The 12th edition of the conference, regarded as one of the world's most important events for the entire CCU and Power-to-X industry and its stakeholders, once again attracted a great deal of attention this year with the latest developments in the rapidly growing field of CCU.
Six nominated companies presented their innovative CCU solutions to a broad international audience of experts. The three winners of the „Best CO2 Utilisation 2024“ innovation award were then selected in a live vote.
The three winning CCU solutions include renewable ethylene for textile fibres and plastics, an innovative plasma-based CO2 conversion technology and a synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) that significantly reduces life cycle emissions. All three CCU solutions are of great importance for the transition away from fossil raw materials.
French company Dioxycle on the winners' podium
The French company Dioxycle won the „Best CO2 Utilisation 2024“ innovation award for the development of an electrolyser for ethylene production. The award-winning carbon electrolysis technology converts industrial emissions into sustainable ethylene using only renewable electricity and water.
This enables the technology to produce carbon-neutral ethylene at a competitive cost, which in turn should be economically attractive for many industries in the context of decarbonisation.
Ethylene is the world's most widely used organic chemical and an essential component of numerous everyday products such as textile fibres, plastics and building materials.
