NETL’s project partner Svante Inc. is rapidly scaling up a new sorbent and intensified process technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, from power generation and industrial point sources that could significantly lower the capital investment needed to develop carbon capture plants at gigaton scale.
Svante offers companies in difficult-to-abate industries, such as those that produce cement, hydrogen, chemicals, pulp and paper, an engineered solution to rapidly capture CO2 with a unique filter made from nanomaterials called structured adsorbents. These filters are installed in a continuous rotary adsorption machine (RAM) that separates CO2 from flue gas streams and generates high-purity CO2 in about 60 seconds. Captured CO2 can then be stored permanently in the subsurface or reused as a feedstock for value-high chemicals and other applications.