Government of India to set up two Centre for excellence in Carbon capture facility in India

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The Government of India is setting up two National Centres of Excellence in Carbon Capture and Utilisation  for  long-term research, design development, collaborative and capacity-building hubs for state-of-the-art research and application-oriented initiatives in the field of Carbon capture.

The two centre s are: 

• National Centre of Excellence in Carbon Capture and Utilisation (NCoE-CCU) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay,

• National Centre in Carbon Capture and Utilisation (NCCCU) at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru 

Concept clearing 

Carbon Capture and Storage and Utilisation 

Carbon Capture and Storage is the process of capturing the carbon dioxide  which is released due to industrial activities/power generation using fossil fuels, before it is released in the atmosphere . 

• The captured carbon- dioxide  can be used to make commercially marketable products . This  is called Capture Capture Storage and Utilisation (CCSU). Normally it is used in enhanced oil extraction where carbon dioxide is injected in oil fields to increase their extraction efficiency.

• The first large-scale CCSU project began operating at Sleipner in Norway in 1996.

Important full form for EXAMS : 

NCoE-CCU: National Centre of Excellence in Carbon Capture and Utilization

National Centre in Carbon Capture and Utilisation.

NCCCU: National Centre in Carbon Capture and Utilisation 

CCSU.: Carbon Capture Storage and Utilisation 

JNCASR: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research