GHG Daily
1/26/2016
The National Energy Technology Laboratory said last week it has granted a license to renewable energy systems developer CogniTek Management Systems for the use of two patented sorbent carbon capture technologies. “CogniTek plans to incorporate these sorbent technologies into its integrated biomass-to-biofuels conversion process with power generation. This innovative process includes carbon capture and represents a sustainable solution for distributed power,” according to an NETL release.
NETL said the addition of the sorbent technology, which works by absorbing CO2, will result in extremely low carbon emissions from the CogniTek process. “The CogniTek process will have naturally low carbon emissions because the plants used as feedstock consume CO2 from the atmosphere as part of their growth process. Incorporating the NETL technologies, which employ a regenerable magnesium hydroxide to capture CO2, makes an inherently green process even greener and will result in a near 100 percent ‘carbon negative’ process,” the release says.
