Reducing the Cost and Energy Penalties of Carbon Capture with Facilitated Transport Membrane (FTM) Technology

GTI Energy is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE-NETL), the Ohio State University (Ohio State) and other partners to develop a CO2 capture process based on novel, transformational membrane technology.

The $21 million project is fabricating facilitated transport membranes (FTM) and membrane modules, designing and building an engineering-scale CO2 capture system with 20-tonne per day of CO2 capture, conducting extensive tests on actual power plant flue gas at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC), and gathering data for further process scale-up.

GTI Energy will also partner with Ohio State to design and build a 3-tonne CO2 per day engineering-scale test skid for testing at a Holcim U. S. cement plant in Holly Hill, South Carolina.

Capturing CO2 from power production and industrial gas streams, such as in cement and steel production, is key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and plays an integral role in the transition to a sustainable and affordable energy system. Membrane systems are attractive in these applications because they are well proven in industrial gas separation applications, inherently modular in nature, and avoid operational and environmental challenges that are associated with more conventional, solvent-based CO2 capture, and has the potential to be a lowest cost option.

The membranes have previously been validated for stability and performance in controlled lab experiments and under actual power plant flue gas conditions in extensive tests at the National Carbon Capture Center in Alabama under a U.S. Department of Energy collaboration.

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