Decarbonization by Volume: Taiwan Brewery Capturing CO2 and Tapping into Beer Line
A new carbon capture project in Taiwan will recycle carbon dioxide from a brewery on facility into a purified and repurposed C02 to use in the production line of the best-selling beer in that country.
Proving that it’s only a hop and a skip to decarbonization on the tastier side of the industrial scale, the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corp. Jhunan Brewery will undertake a demonstration project to achieve carbon recycling that beer lovers may toast in celebration. TTL will work with Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and the Industrial Research Technology Institute (IRTI) at the site where the brewer makes the popular Taiwan Beer.
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Beginning last year, Mitsubishi Electric and ITRI agreed to cooperate on creating sustainability technologies, including CO2 capture and utilization. Earlier this summer, Mitsubishi Electric installed a capture machine developed by ITRI at its research and development center in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
The machine is demonstrating capture of C02 from the flue gas of a boiler. To begin the process of perhaps eventually commercializing this capture technology, Mitsubishi Electric and ITRI then signed a collaboration deal with the Jhunan Brewery.
The work will focus on capturing the CO2 from the beverage manufacturing process and then using that in the beer line. Carbonization varies in the types of beer, but residual CO2 is a common component of beers, soft drinks and sparkling water.
Mitsubishi Electric and ITRI are committed to continuing their demonstration on carbon capture and repurpose potential at least until June 2027, the companies say.
TTL employs more than 300 people at its 360,000-square-meter Jhunan Brewery. The brewery produces more than 150,000 hectoliters (or 3.96 million gallons) of Taiwan Beer annually.