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Description: The UK Government has committed to enhancing UK’s hydrogen and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) capacity in the Ten Point Plan. These technologies are expected to play a major role in the decarbonisation of industrial clusters. East Coast Cluster, one of the Track-1 clusters, aspires to deliver CCUS infrastructure that will remove almost 50% of the UK industrial emissions. This collaborative research project between Quorn, CQUESTR8, TUBIS, and NZIIC aims to support the decarbonisation of the UK industry by evaluating carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies. Quorn, a leader in meat-free protein manufacturing, seeks to achieve net-zero emissions from its operations by 2030. CQUESTR8 is an SME in CO2 utilisation seeking to demonstrate its enhanced weathering technology for aggregate production. The project will assess options to capture CO2 from Quorn's fermentation process and utilise it in downstream processing stages or store it via the CQUESTR8 process. The project will examine the potential to retrofit selected CCU processes to Quorn's infrastructure. This will identify the most feasible and cost-effective solutions. Process and techno-economic models will be used to estimate the potential emission reductions, costs, and business benefits of CCU adoption. Workshops will be conducted to understand the social perception of CCU adoption.