Commercial carbon capture for industrial decarbonization
Linal Perera is Director of Global Business and Project Development at Svante, where he leads commercial carbon capture projects to help industrial organizations navigate decarbonization.
With over a decade of clean energy, refining, and petrochemical experience at Svante, Shell, and Haldor Topsoe, he bridges complex engineering challenges with strategic business growth. Linal holds a chemical engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Rice University, driving scalable technologies that achieve meaningful emissions reductions.
Pathways to Commercial-Scale CCUS: Deployment Strategies, Risk Allocation, and Market Readiness
A panel on what it actually takes to move CCUS from demonstration to commercial scale — how projects are de-risked and financed, where policy and permitting still bite, and how emerging carbon-utilization routes turn captured CO₂ into products with their own revenue stack.
- Leveraging digitalization, automation, and artificial intelligence to enhance operational efficiency and improve commercial-scale CCUS project economics
- Navigating decarbonization challenges and federal tax policy impacts across commercial hydrogen production and storage pathways
- Evaluating commercial bankability and strategic revenue stacks to de-risk projects amidst evolving market and policy uncertainties
- Mitigating subsurface environmental risks, legacy well integrity issues, and Class VI permitting challenges through advanced numerical modeling and monitoring
- Accelerating commercialization of emerging carbon-utilization technologies through value-added product revenue streams, technology de-risking, and strategic industry-lab partnerships
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