Quebec-based carbon capture technology developer CO2 Solutions said Wednesday it began pilot-scale testing of its Rotating Packed Bed (RPB) carbon capture system at North Dakota’a Energy and Environmental Research Center Monday. “The objective of these tests is to confirm earlier bench-scale test findings that indicated the potential of replacing significantly larger (20 to 50 times) conventional packed tower contactors for CO2 capture with RPB equipment,” a CO2 Solutions release says. Testing is scheduled to run through Sept. 26, but more time may be taken if needed, according to a company press release.
“The outcome, if our earlier results are confirmed, is that implementation of our technology will be even lower cost than what we have demonstrated thus far,” Evan Price, CO2 Solutions president and CEO, said in the release. “The logical follow up will be to insert RPB equipment into commercial scale projects for the capture, utilization and/or sequestration of carbon from large industrial emitters.”
