Ash Grove Foreman Cement Plant CCS

The Ash Grove Foreman Cement Plant Carbon Capture Project is an integrated carbon capture, transport, and storage initiative at the Ash Grove cement plant in Foreman, Arkansas. The project was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy under its Carbon Capture Demonstrations Projects Program to receive funding for an integrated Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study aimed at reducing CO₂ emissions associated with cement manufacturing, a traditionally hard-to-abate industrial source. The FEED effort is being executed over approximately 24 months with a budget of about $15.2 million, and it will establish the engineering, cost basis, and technical design for a full CCS system that can capture and prepare cement kiln CO₂ for transport and storage. The project team is led by the Southern States Energy Board, with Ash Grove Cement (site host) as the operating facility, and includes technical partners such as Advanced Resources International, Crescent Resource Innovation, Air Liquide, Environmental Resource Management, Sargent & Lundy, and industry stakeholder Talos. The study will consider advanced capture technology such as Air Liquide’s Cryocap™ post-combustion system and integrate carbon capture with downstream transport and storage planning, including preliminary pipeline and storage development assessments. The outcome of the FEED will support future decisions on implementing a commercial CCS solution for the Foreman cement plant to significantly lower its CO₂ footprint from manufacturing operations