So you can see not just how an assembly looks, but how it will operate as well.
The way we are focusing on achieving this is through carbon capture, which reduces emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) during synthesis by capturing emitted carbon dioxide and reusing it in other stages of the plastics manufacturing process..Carbon Capture and Utilisation vs Carbon Capture and Storage.
There are two main methods of carbon capture: carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) and carbon capture and storage (CCS).The difference between them is that CCS takes the CO. 2. ,.and stores it to be sold on to whoever needs it later, whereas CCU reuses the collected CO. 2. almost immediately.
There are benefits to both systems, but CCU has less potential for wasted carbon dioxide.Both methods have been used at commercial scale with ‘undisputable technical and operational success for decades’ in the North Sea, North America, Australia and elsewhere.
Naturally, this isn’t a closed loop; feedstock will always need to be provided.
But given that, as of 2019, carbon feedstock equated to 58% of the usage of carbon-based materials like crude oil and other fossil fuels in the industry, it would be a positive step to use carbon capture to reduce the amount required, and therefore begin to lower the carbon footprint of the industrial plastic produced using these methods..Future-proofing is no longer about thinking how we might repurpose a building in twenty years’ time.
The question now is how we allow for changes that may well cycle round in a matter of months..In a world where everyone may need to work from home, what does that mean for designing and building flats and houses?
If every occupant has to have the space, power and connectivity to work effectively?And what will we do with that space if it’s not needed, if the occupants have jobs that can’t be done at home?.