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En stilisert illustrasjon av en person som bruker et nett for å fange eller inneholde CO₂-utslipp fra industrielle skorsteiner. Grafisk illustrasjon.

15.11.2022

New capture process promises cheaper CCS

Researchers from SINTEF have further developed a new process for CO2 capture and studied new materials that can effectively separate CO2 from other gases. The results show great potential for cheaper and more efficient CO2 capture.

If we are to achieve international climate goals, CO2 capture and storage must be adopted on a large scale worldwide. The technology for this exists, but intensive development work is under way to make it cheaper and more efficient.

Moving Bed Temperature Swing Adsorption

Richard Blom from SINTEF has been the project leader of the EDeMoTec project, which has further developed an interesting process for CO2 capture. The process is known as Moving Bed Temperature Swing Adsorption (MBTSA). This is a process in which flue gas containing CO2 first comes into contact with solids, known as adsorbents, which can bind to the CO2. In the next process step, the adsorbent is heated to release the CO2. This produces pure CO2 that can be permanently stored. One of the main issues for the MBTSA process is to achieve a high degree of purity of the separated CO2 gas.

One challenge is to choose adsorbents that are both effective and stable, and this is where Blom and his team have achieved interesting results. Several types of materials have been studied, and some prove to be more effective and stable than others. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and zeolites have yielded very promising results.

A competitive solution

The EDeMoTec project, funded by CLIMIT, has enabled the researchers to run the necessary process simulations and a comprehensive testing programme. The results show that the process could be a competitive solution for CO2 capture from gas-fired power plants and waste incineration plants, for example.

The MBTSA process will now be further developed in the Horizon 2020 project MOF4AIR. Richard Blom and his team are also working with industry players to optimise the process.

Facts about the project

Project number: 267873

Project title: Enabling technology for the development of Moving Bed Temperature Swing Adsorption process for post-combustion CO2 capture

Project manager: Richard Blom, SINTEF

Partners: SINTEF, NTNU, SRI International

Period: 2017-2022

Budget: NOK 11.34 million

Support from the Research Council of Norway through the CLIMIT programme: NOK 10.75 million

Read more about the project Details can also be obtained from the project’s final report
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CLIMIT is a national programme that has been funding research, development, and demonstration of more efficient CCS technologies for 20 years.

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