Colorado-based ION Engineering has sealed a deal with Norway’s Technology Center Mongstad (TCM) to test the company’s solvent carbon capture technology. ““TCM provides ION with tremendous opportunity for advancement of our technology. At the 12 MWe scale, TCM is a vital step in the scale-up process as ION continues to make positive strides towards world-wide deployment of our CO2 capture technology at commercial scale facilities,” Alfred “Buz” Brown, CEO and chairman of ION Engineering, said in a TCM release.
ION’s technology was recently tested successfully at the United States’ National Carbon Capture Center under a multiyear cooperative funding agreement with the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Following the completion of successful testing at the NCCC, ION received another $7.5 million by NETL to pursue testing at TCM.
Testing at TCM will start in October and run through April 2017. “We are very satisfied that ION Engineering is now heading for Mongstad to further prove their technology in an industrial environment at commercial scale,” Roy Vardheim, TCM managing director, said in the release.
