http://m.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2441760/whitefox-technologies-reveals-plan-to-build-membrane-based-carbon-capture-unit-by-2020
Whitefox Technologies reveals plan to build membrane-based carbon capture unit by 2020 BY MADELEINE CUFF R&D 14 JANUARY 2016 BG Technology Awards winner reveals ambition to enter carbon capture market, with plan to build small-scale industrial demonstration unit in the next three years Industrial membrane technology specialists Whitefox Technologies has revealed ambitions to use its innovative products to enter the carbon capture and storage sector (CCS). In an exclusive interview withBusinessGreen the British firm's chief executive Gillian Harrison said the firm aims to use its energy efficient membrance technology, developed for removing water from solvents such as ethanol, for the separation of gasses for CCS. The firm, which won the Clean and Cool Award for International Impact at last year's inaugural BusinessGreen Technology Awards, has already experimented internally with separating hydrogen from carbon dioxide, Harrison revealed. She said the firm now aims to build a small-scale industrial demonstration unit within the next three years, before exploring the potential for commercial deployment of the technology. Harrison told BusinessGreen she sees a lot of potential for the use of membranes to improve the process of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, but stressed that commercial growth in the sector will be limited unless business can find a way of redeploying the carbon in a useful way. "I would prefer to see people coming up with really good solutions for using CO2, rather than sequestering it," she said. "I think then you can start to see some fantastic opportunities. I think if we just rely on sequestering it then that's going to limit the growth." Whitefox is in the midst of an ambitious US expansion plan. In May 2015 the firm partnered with Pacific Ethanol, the US' sixth-largest biofuels producer, to build a demonstration unit of its 'bolt-on' membrane technology for the biofuel sector. The firm said it plans to build a commercial version of the unit this year, as part of a wider scale rollout of the technology. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
