Dastur Innovation Labs partners US for carbon tech

KOLKATA: Dastur Innovation Labs (DIL), part of engineering and design consultancy firm MN Dastur & Co, has tied up with a US Department of Energy arm to develop carbon capture technologies for steel, power and other carbon intense industries in the Indian market.

The move was prompted by the government’s green move. The government is fully financing Carbon Capture and Utilisation Technologies, which includes other initiatives such as solar power penetration and adoption of electric vehicles.

This technology, which controls the emission of CO2 and makes it available for productive industrial uses, is in use in the US and few other countries. “We are evaluating the economic route for implementing such technologies in the Indian context especially, for steel, power, cement and chemical industries,” Atanu Mukherjee, president, MN Dastur & Co said.