Organization  Sustainable Energy Solutions
Website  http://www.sustainablees.com/
Point of Contact Dr. Larry Baxter

Cryogenic carbon capture is the process of removing carbon dioxide from flue gas by desublimation, followed by compression and transport of carbon dioxide in the condensed phase. With emerging process equipment and design concepts, cryogenic carbon capture has the potential to be more efficient and less expensive than current solvent-based carbon dioxide separation technologies. Sustainable Energy Solutions will develop and validate novel process components, and design a cryogenic carbon capture prototype system suitable for testing at coal-fired power plants. The approach is estimated to provide a 50 percent energy reduction for capturing carbon dioxide, in comparison to state-of-the-art amine-based solvent processes.

Project Details presented at the 2010 CO2 Capture Technology Meeting in September, 2010

Project Factsheet (PDF 319KB)

IMPACCT - Projects

• ATK: A High Efficiency Inertial CO2 Extraction System - ICES
• Codexis, Inc.: Low-Cost Biological Catalyst to Enable Efficient CO2 Capture
• Earth & Environmental Engineering, Columbia University: Chemical and Biological Catalytic Enhancement of Weathering of Silicate Minerals as Novel Carbon Capture and Storage Technology
• GE Global Research: CO2 Capture Process Using Phase-Changing Absorbents
• Georgia Tech Research Corporation: High Performance MOF-polymer Composite Membranes for CO2 Capture
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: High-Throughput Discovery of Robust Metal-Organic Frameworks for CO2 Capture
• Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLNS: Catalytic Improvement of Solvent Capture Systems
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Electrochemically Mediated Separation for Carbon Capture and Mitigation
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory: High Performance CO2 Scrubbing Based on Hollow Fiber-Supported Designer Ionic Liquid Sponges
• Research Triangle Institute (RTI International): Novel Non-Aqueous CO2 Solvent-based Capture Process with Substantially Reduced Energy Penalties
• Sustainable Energy Solutions: Cryogenic Carbon Capture
• Texas A&M University: Stimuli-Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy-Efficient Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture
• The Regents of the University of Colorado: Achieving a 10,000 GPU Permeance for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture with Gelled Ionic Liquid-Based Membranes
• University of Kentucky Research Foundation: A Solvent-Membrane Hybrid Post-combustion CO2 Capture Process for Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants
• University of Notre Dame: CO2 Capture with Ionic Liquids Involving Phase Change