A new carbon capture and utilization technology developed by United Arab Emirates-based Engineering Solutions Minerals DMCC (ENGSL) could capture up to 1.3 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, the Masdar Institute confirmed this week. The new technology, which mixes sodium hydroxide with CO2 from flue gas to create soda ash, could cost as much as 35 percent less than mainstream amine carbon capture technologies.
“Through a comprehensive process of design modeling, economic evaluation, and experimental validation, we determined how economically feasible this technology is and we have proven that it has very high potential to be implemented on a large-scale on UAE’s combined cycle power plants,” Mohammad Abu Zahra, associate professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the Masdar Institute said in a release.
