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The installation – a metal tower 11 meters high, flanked by a container and a tank, one for storing liquid nitrogen and the other for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) – would almost go unnoticed beside the two enormous lime kilns that continuously transform limestone, extracted from a quarry owned by Bocahut, into calcium oxide. This network of pipes and tubes, perpetually covered in white dust, is the demonstrator for the Lyon-based start-up Revcoo, which has developed a proprietary process for capturing CO2.

Since 2024, it has been tested on this 120-hectare open-air site, owned by French construction group Eiffage and located in Haut-Lieu (northern France), 25 kilometers south of Maubeuge. "For now, our pilot has a capture capacity of 1,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. Our goal is to multiply that by 10 by 2027, then reach 80,000 to 100,000 metric tons in 2030 – the equivalent of the site's total emissions," explained Hugo Lucas, founder and president of Revcoo.

The 33-year-old engineer founded the start-up in 2019 with the ambition of contributing to the decarbonization of heavy industry. His patented "CarbonCloud" technology is relatively straightforward: It captures smoke off the factory's chimneys, sorts out the CO2 by freezing it, liquefies it, and then stores it in tanks. The entire process runs on electricity, with no water or solvents required.

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