Scientists attempt to reduce chimney gas pollution

Researchers in the North-East are attempting to decrease the gas pollution that emits from flue accessories and have now been granted extra funding.

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has specialised in finding methods to reduce gas pollution from chimneys for several years, though now their work will be enhanced by a £1.2 million funding package, according to Business and Enterprise North-East.

Project manager, Chris Gilbert from CPI, said: "It may all seem like something from science fiction but at the end of the day research and development must be linked to a real commercial and industrial application."

Mr Gilbert added that the organisation's technologies have the potential to be much cheaper than the other forms of carbon capture seen within the industry.

Other environmentally-friendly methods have been adopted in Europe, Oil Voice reports, where a full-scale carbon capture plant is hoping to hone its use of anime technology within the heating sector.