Carbon Neutral Solutions
Making Carbon
Neutrality a Reality
Carbon Capture
Utilization and Storage
(CCUS) Solutions
Toshiba’s Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) solutions seek to capture CO2 at its source, store it, and utilize it to support other projects by repurposing the carbon and assist with emissions reduction. Finding alternative ways to utilize captured CO2 contributes to a net-zero future.
Toshiba is actively involved in the planning, design, and evaluation of CO2 capture plants and continues to optimize the integration of high-performance CO2 capture technology. One of Toshiba’s largest carbon capture designs was developed to capture more than 600 tons of CO2 a day which is over 50 percent of the power plant’s daily emissions
operating hours
CO2/day
emitted CO2
Large Scale Carbon
Capture Production
Repurposing Carbon and
Other Reduction Strategies
In a similar effort to repurpose carbon, the Power to Chemicals (P2C) process converts CO2 to carbon monoxide using electrolysis. The resulting raw material can then be used to make plastics, paints, fuels, and pharmaceuticals. Toshiba developed a proprietary electrocatalyst electrode that can convert CO2 without the need to dissolve it in water, as previous systems required. The technology instead allows CO2 gas to react with the water as both interact with the electrocatalyst, accelerating the transformation and making this method the most efficient CO2 conversion technology available today.
Another reduction strategy is substituting a green alternative for sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), a greenhouse gas that has 23,500 times the global warming potential that CO2 does. SF6 is typically used to insulate switchgear within an electric power system but can be replaced with less harmful alternatives. In a partnership with Meidensha, Toshiba is developing a gas insulated switchgear (GIS) using a natural origin gas that does not contain SF6.
