Can Engineered Structured Adsorbents Alter the Capital Cost Paradigm of Carbon Capture?

If the world is to address climate change by reducing CO2 emissions, the approach cannot be solely focused on replacing fossil fuels, and must include managing the CO2 emissions from them and other industrial sources. Yet, carbon capture remains unloved by the public and easily cast aside by politicians because of its high cost.
What if there is a better way?

Inspired by science and advanced by intelligent design, the engineers at Inventys have developed a carbon capture technology that is unlike any other on the market. By choosing to disregard public opinion that favoured liquid agents such as solvents and amines and using the latest generations of advanced adsorbent materials, Inventys has overcome traditional challenges, including high capital costs and solvent degradation and volatility.

In this technical presentation, Inventys will provide the results of detailed process simulation and robust capital cost estimation and capture cost analysis of its rapid cycle thermal swing adsorption process (RCTSA), termed VeloxoThermâ„¢. The VeloxoThermâ„¢ process is a transformational carbon capture technology which uses a proprietary combination of structured adsorbent technology, advanced adsorbent materials, optimized RCTSA-cycle designs and low-cost compact equipment.

The work provided in this presentation is based on the simulation of the RCTSA cycle optimized for coal flue integrated into a complete carbon capture retrofit at a ~550 MWe PC subcritical power plant. This is in turn used together with vendor quotes, software-based cost estimation tools and third-party proprietary databases to perform a detailed capital cost estimate and overall techno-economic analysis (TEA) of the carbon capture retrofit. This information has been verified by a third-party.

Previous TEA work performed by Inventys considered older generations of structured adsorbent, while the work provided in this presentation uses the latest generation of advanced adsorbent materials selected recently by Inventys to deliver a true breakthrough in post-combustion capture economics.

Learn how advanced adsorbents meet engineered structures and alter the capital cost paradigm of carbon capture.