The demonstration will run for a minimum of six months and represents the first time Nuada’s technology has been deployed in a live industrial EfW setting.
The new pilot plant is based on metal-organic framework (MOF) technology, which captures carbon dioxide from point sources using a vacuum swing process.
The trial will assess the potential of the system to reduce emissions from the EfW facility.
Dr Conor Hamill, Co-CEO of Nuada, commented: “Partnering with Enfinium on this trial allows us to demonstrate the performance of our innovative carbon capture technology.
“We believe that CCUS innovation like ours can help the EfW sector to efficiently unlock value from an existing waste stream CO2. We look forward to deepening our partnership and supporting Enfinium’s CCUS goals.”
Ferrybridge-1 was opened in 2015 in West Yorkshire and makes up the largest EfW facility in the UK alongside its sister site Ferrybridge-2.
Second carbon capture project
This marks Enfinium’s second carbon capture pilot plant.
The first was relocated to Parc Adfer in Flintshire, North Wales in April 2025, and was installed and operated by global contractor Kanadevia Inova after being moved from the Ferrybridge-1 facility.
Both pilot projects will run for at least six months and form part of Enfinium’s plan to deploy CCS across its six UK facilities.
Simon Forshaw, Vice President of Engineering and Construction at Enfinium, added: “Deploying waste to energy carbon capture at scale is critical to decarbonise the UK’s unrecyclable waste and generate the carbon removals needed to achieve net zero.
“Nuada’s next-generation carbon capture technology has the potential to deliver significant energy and cost savings in the carbon capture process.
“The piloting of this exciting technology at our Ferrybridge facility enables us to better understand the future technologies we could use to deliver WECCS across our entire fleet.”
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