Environmental capacity for industrial clusters

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 1 Humber Pathfinder Project

PDF, 882 KB, 32 pages

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 2

PDF, 3.19 MB, 68 pages

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters project: infographic for Phases 1 and 2

PDF, 275 KB, 3 pages

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 3

PDF, 1.89 MB, 63 pages

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 3 (annex 1)

PDF, 943 KB, 67 pages

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 3 (annex 2)

PDF, 2.63 MB, 75 pages

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 3 (annex 3)

PDF, 266 KB, 24 pages

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 3 (annex 4)

PDF, 4.82 MB, 168 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 3 (annex 5)

PDF, 2.45 MB, 158 pages

Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 3 (annex 6)

PDF, 756 KB, 50 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

These documents present findings of government sponsored work in 2021 to 2024 by the Environment Agency (EA) to investigate the environmental capacity to deploy carbon capture and hydrogen production technology in key English industrial clusters.

They include:

• a snapshot view of industry plans at a cluster level
• a full review of evidence on water availability and quality
• a partial review of air quality and the risk of flooding
• impacts that deployment may have on the receiving environment, including habitats
• consideration of how these factors will be influenced by a changing climate

This work focused on the Humber, Teesside and HyNet (Merseyside) industrial clusters due to their sizeable contribution to the UK's annual industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

Work in future phases will complete our review of environmental capacity issues in the HyNet industrial cluster by considering air quality.

The findings and recommendations from the reports will help government, industry and regulators to consider and find solutions to the challenges facing the environment from these technologies.

Related projects

• Digital twin of an industrial cluster: a proof of concept on the Humber Estuary
• Digital twin of an industrial cluster: a proof of concept on the Humber Estuary - YouTube

Technologies

• Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture: emerging techniques
• Hydrogen production with carbon capture: emerging techniques
• Hydrogen production by electrolysis of water: emerging techniques

Guidance and information related to discharges to water

• Abstraction licensing strategies (catchment abstraction management strategy (CAMS) process) - find out how much water is available in your area
• Meeting our future water needs: a national framework for water resources

Guidance and information related to discharges to air

• Air emissions risk assessment for your environmental permit
• Environmental permitting: air dispersion modelling reports
• UK Carbon Capture and Storage (UKCCS) Research Community: Best available techniques (BAT) information for CCS
• UKCCS Research Community: Improving post combustion carbon capture air quality risk assessment techniques
• Hazard ranking of substances for development of environmental assessment levels (EALs) for substance emissions to air from carbon capture technologies
• Environment Agency recommendations for the assessment and regulation of impacts to air quality from amine-based post-combustion carbon capture plants

1. 24 October 2024

   Added Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 3 and annexes 1 to 6.

2. 21 March 2024

   First published.