Abby L. Harvey
GHG Monitor
6/26/2015
CO2 Solutions has entered into an agreement with Ohio-based GasTran, a provider of high-intensity gas-liquid rotate packed bed (RPB) mass transfer technology, the company announced this week in a release. The companies will work to combine the GasTran RPB technology with CO2 Solutions enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology in hopes of decreasing the footprint of future carbon capture retrofits. “We believe this collaboration with GasTran will significantly increase our market reach, driven both by compelling economics and installation considerations” Evan Price, President and CEO of CO2 Solutions, said in a release. “The new solution complements our existing packed-column based technology, which we are looking to commercialize this year, bringing us greater flexibility to pursue further commercial opportunities. This lower cost, dramatically more compact solution, also has the potential of eventually replacing current packed column technology.”
According to the release, initial testing of the technologies suggests that the collaboration could result in carbon capture equipment 20 times smaller than conventional models. This reduction would in turn reduce capital costs and make the technology available for emitters currently not suited for capture technology due to space constraints. Further, absorption rates five times faster than conventional amine solvents were observed in the RPB testing. “We are looking forward to teaming with CO2 Solutions to demonstrate this breakthrough technology for carbon capture,” Matthew Brinn, President and CEO of GasTran, said in the release. “We anticipate realizing very significant synergies from the collaboration, making this an important opportunity for us to penetrate large existing markets for the commercial reuse of CO2.”
