Global Thermostat’s technology is doubly revolutionary, in that it works equally well at capturing CO2 from power plants and industrial flues as it does capturing CO2 directly from the air anywhere. Other carbon capture technologies generally only work economically when sucking on the rich CO2streams coming out of an industrial smokestack. But GT can also economically extract CO2 directly from the air, making it AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, AND ABUNDANTLY AVAILABLE for use practically anywhere.
This eliminates the need for expensive trucking and long pipelines, opening up vast new markets and geographies to CO2 use – whether for Enhanced Oil Recovery; Synthetic or Algae Biofuels; Gas-to-Liquids; Greenhouse & On-Field Crop Enhancement; Industrial Gases; and a plethora of other existing and emerging uses.
GT offers a “platform” of technologies in several modalities, or embodiments, for different uses:
In a PURE AIR EMBODIMENT GT plants capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere at low concentrations, and can be carbon negative. They co-locate with industrial facilities (or solar farms) to utilize their residual process heat to run the carbon capture operations.
In a CARBURETED EMBODIMENT GT plants co-locate with industrial facilities to utilize their residual heat, and capture concentrated CO2 from those facilities’ smoke stacks. GT blends that CO2 with atmospheric air, and can capture significantly more CO2 than is being emitted. By capturing this additional atmospheric CO2, the system can be carbon negative. This model produces the lowest cost CO2 per tonne.
SELF-CARBURETED EMBODIMENTS are truly stand-alone: they burn fuel in GT’s own gas turbines, generating the heat and electricity needed to capture their own emissions while also capturing CO2 from the atmosphere, remaining carbon negative.
A Unique Capture Process
GT uses custom equipment and proprietary (dry) amine-based chemical “sorbents” that are bonded to porous, honeycomb ceramic “monoliths” which act together as carbon sponges. These carbon sponges efficiently adsorb CO2 directly from the atmosphere, smokestacks, or a combination of both. The captured CO2 is then stripped off and collected using low-temperature steam (85-100° C), ideally sourced from residual/process heat at little or no-cost. The output results in 98% pure CO2 at standard temperature and pressure. During the process only steam and electricity are consumed, without the creation of emissions or other effluents. This entire process is mild, safe, and carbon negative.
Global Thermostat’s Carbon Capture & Utilization Plants can reliably produce unlimited amounts of CO2 at a low cost, and on-site as needed. This results in commercial-use ready CO2, eliminating the need for long pipelines and/or transportation costs.
Modular & Small Footprint: GT plants are completely modular – from a single 50,000 tonne/yr. Module to a 40-Module, 2MM tonne/yr. Plant, and larger – a GT plant grows by adding more modules. GT Plants also have a small footprint – capturing from 20-500 tonnes of CO2/yr./m2 or more, depending on the embodiment used.
Plants can be Stand-Alone (Pure Air) or Co-Located with large emitters – both new & existing. In fact, integrating GT’s post-combustion process with an existing power plant is quite simple, and has been done with just a single day of power plant down-time. GT enables a true Carbon Negative electricity generation: a GT plant utilizes the residual heat of an adjacent fossil fueled power plant, while simultaneously capturing the CO2-rich flue gases it produces. This process allows the plant to capture substantially more CO2 than it emits. Similarly, GT can utilize the “harmful” heat byproduct of PV solar farms to power its plants, turning the farms into giant carbon sinks, while increasing their profitability through CO2 sales.
Unlike some other green initiatives, GT requires no government subsidies or Carbon Credits to be economical and profitable.
Exclusive Benefits
Abundant, Reliable Supply of CO2:
- CO2 drawn from industrial flues, or directly from the air supplied in any quantity desired, via a totally modular design
- Modules capture ~40,000 tonnes/yr. each
- Can expand as needed, by adding more modules
Low Cost:
- Affordable & profitable without government subsidies or carbon credits
- Easy to integrate with existing or new-built power plants
- Small footprint: captures CO2 at hundreds of tonnes/yr/m2
- Carbon Negative: uses residual heat to capture more CO2 than power plants emit
Can Be Located Anywhere:
- CO2 supplied on-site, wherever needed
- Slashes transportation costs
- No long pipelines needed
- Can be stand-alone, or co-located with large emitters
- Runs on cheap & plentiful residual/process heat
- Ideal for remote/austere locations
How GT Technology Works?
CO2 Markets
- Food and Beverages
- Plastics
- Greenhouses
- Biofertilizers
- Industrial Gases
- Synthetic Fuels
- Water Desalination
- EOR
- Building Materials
Source: Global Thermostat
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