Aniruddha Sharma

As Chair and CEO of Carbon Clean, Aniruddha Sharma oversees the company’s strategy, commercial growth and project delivery operations. He is also chair of the Board.

Since co-founding Carbon Clean in 2009, Aniruddha has steered the company through several investment cycles, including funding from the UK Government and US Department of Energy. In May 2022, Carbon Clean set a record among point-source carbon capture scale-ups with a Series C round that attracted $150m in funding.

Under Aniruddha’s leadership, Carbon Clean has expanded globally, opening offices in the US and Canada, and growing its footprint in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.

Aniruddha graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur with Master’s and Bachelor’s (Hons) degrees in Statistics and Informatics.

Session Overview

Tuesday, 5 November

15:30

15:30 - 16:30

Advancing the commercial viability of carbon emissions abatement technologies

The range of carbon emissions reduction technologies is broad – from retrofits for existing compressors to vapour recovery units, carbon capture units and more cost-efficient wind turbines. Their economic viability can be often challenged. Upfront costs can be high, and businesses and investors are understandably cautious about technologies unproven at scale. Additionally, the absence of robust carbon pricing or tax breaks can make clean technologies less competitive. The energy industry, government, technology innovators and academia must work together to incentivise the financing needed to scale the technologies that will deliver the new energy system.

Attendee insights:

This session will explore how carbon reduction technologies can be made more commercially viable, accelerating the clean energy transition.

13:30

13:30 - 14:00

Innovation showcase: A transformation in industrial carbon capture

Carbon Clean’s fully columnless CycloneCC C1 series, is a compact, modular carbon capture solution that eliminates conventional columns by using Rotating Packed Beds (RPBs). This design cuts plant height by 70% and reduces steel needs by over 35%. The full CycloneCC C1 series is available in concentrations ranging from 3% to 20%, capturing up to 100,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. With a smaller, columnless design, CycloneCC requires up to 50% less space and reduces the total cost of carbon capture by up to 50%.

Carbon capture brings together economics, efficiency and performance. Innovative use of Carbon Clean-developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) is also contributing to increased efficiency and reliability, as well as maximising the performance of Carbon Clean’s proprietary APBS-CDRMax solvent.