Carbon Clean, a carbon capture innovation company, is developing a new design, called Cyclone CC C1
The modular carbon capture design is expected to capture concentrations of 3-20%, or up to 100,000t of CO2 per year.
The modular design will save space as well as reduce the amount of technology or equipment required in conventional carbon capture plants.
The design implements rotating packed bed technology
The technology replaces the columns used in traditional plants, reducing the average height of carbon capture technology by 70%.
The design also reduces the amount of steel required for the units by 35%, further improving sustainability.
With the UK committing £21.7bn to carbon capture technology over 25 years, this technology is an example of the direction the country will take in carbon capture solutions.
The “most sustainable way of decarbonising”
Prateek Bumb, Carbon Clean co-founder and chief technical officer, said: “It’s a centrifuge that is rotating at high speeds up to 200/300 rotations per minute.”
“As we are using the right centrifugal forces, we are increasing the mass transfer significantly and because of that, what is normally a 40m in height system, we can achieve in a very compact system.
“At the moment we can deliver the product in 18 months but when we have the right ecosystem in place, the right delivery, the mass production, standardization, the whole thing can be easily done in less than six months.
“That’s what we are trying to achieve, the decarbonisation and delivery ecosystem but learning from electric vehicles and the solar and other ecosystems in terms of mass production and standardisation.
“I think sustainability and carbon capture go hand in hand because the industries that are typically hard to abate, such as cement, steel, fertilizer, oil and gas, these ecosystems need to decarbonise.
“I think we are trying to come up with a solution which is the most optimal and most sustainable way of decarbonising and achieving the roadmap associated with decarbonisation.”
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