What We Do
Svante makes commercial-scale carbon capture a reality, and positions global industries to play offense in the fight against climate change.
Named after Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius, one of the first scientists to identify the atmospheric carbon-climate change connection, Svante is the first name in commercially viable, economically scalable, second generation carbon capture technology.
We open opportunities for CO2 utilization and net-zero emissions at giga-tonne scale.
Carbon Capture Solutions
At the Source
Svante technology traps carbon produced from industrial flue gas emissions generated from the production of cement, steel, ammonia, aluminum, methanol and hydrogen. We are an non-intrusive end-of-the-pipe solution for existing industrial infrastructure to deliver pipeline-ready CO2 for safe storage at giga-tonne (GT) scale.
The unique modular and scalable design of our technology position Svante to capture carbon and to provide carbon to the industries the world relies on to build and sustain modern communities, all while preventing CO2 from entering the environment. Pre-engineered solutions are packaged for each application.
The capacity is scalable in multiples of individual rotating adsorption machines (RAMs) either 30 tonnes per day (TPD) or 1,000 TPD size depending on the flue gas composition and product purity requirements. Future development will allow us to scale-up the RAM up to about 3,000 TPD to meet the GT scale challenge.
Svante CO2 solutions are pre-engineered turnkey plants fully automated and customized for each application, including flue gas pre-treatment, RAM, and product CO2 dehydration & gas handling system. Battery limit of each balance of plant is site specific and can be integrated with off the shelf storage, compression or liquefaction units depending on the CO2 usage. Pre-engineering solutions are packaged using the RAM model series described below.
Our Carbon Capture Products
Pre-engineering solutions are packaged using the RAM model series.
Commercial Series Carbon Capture
- 400 Model – Pilot Plant
- 30 tonne per day
- 1600 Model – Pilot Plant
- from 500 to 1,000 tonne per day
Testing Series
- 100 Model – Lab Testing Units
- 100 kg per day
- 200 Model – Field Testing Units
- 500 to 1,000 kg per day
Carbon Capture Technology
Catch and Release in 60 Seconds
Developed by Svante, the process captures CO₂ from flue gas, concentrates it, then releases it for safe storage or industrial use, all in 60 seconds.
Our approach is tailored specifically to the challenges of separating CO₂ from nitrogen contained in diluted flue gas generated by industrial plants such as cement, steel, aluminum, fertilizer and hydrogen, which is typically emitted in large volumes, at low pressures, and dilute concentrations.
We are using tailor-made nano-materials (solid adsorbents) with very high storage capacity for CO₂. A sugar-cube sized quantity of our material has the surface area of a football field. We have engineered these adsorbents to catch and release CO₂ in less than 60 seconds, compared to hours for other technologies, Therefore, we need a much smaller inventory of adsorbent relative to traditional technology using liquid solvent.
Svante’s technology consists of a patented architecture of structured adsorbent laminate (spaced sheets), proprietary process cycle design, and a rotary mechanical contactor to capture, release and regenerate the adsorbent in a single unit.
Structured Adsorbent Advantage
The commercial gas separation systems currently using adsorbents have changed little since the late 1950s. Conventional temperature swing adsorption and pressure swing adsorption processes – the two main adsorptive gas separation processes widely used in gas separation platforms – cannot provide an economically viable solution for industrial CO₂ capture due to their high capital and operating costs.
Conventional pressure swing adsorption processes using adsorbents are not well-suited to atmospheric post-combustion CO₂ capture due to the energy required to compress the large volume of gases. Conventional temperature swing adsorption processes, meanwhile, are hampered by poor heat and mass transfer properties and result in prohibitively long cycle times and large equipment costs.
The fact is conventional adsorbents are more than half a century old and lack the sophistication and properties required for economical and scalable CO₂ capture.
A new class of materials such as functionalized-silica or metal-organic frameworks exhibit far sharper temperature and pressure swing absorption and desorption, which allow for lower parasitic energy loads and faster kinetic rates.
Svante’s process is largely material agnostic, which means that when new materials are developed we anticipate lowering the cost of industrial scale carbon capture even further.
Table 1: Key characteristics of structured adsorbent versus granular sorbent material
Manufacturing and Testing
During the last decade, Svante has invested tens of millions of dollars in developing state-of-the-art solid sorption laboratories with capabilities that cover surface chemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, rheology, hydrodynamics, cyclic processing, mechanical testing, mechanical sealing, tribology, durability, and contaminants management.
Svante has begun assembly of its pre-commercial production active materials and solid adsorbent bed (SAB) assembly line. The SAB assembly line process consists of mixing, coating, printing, assembling of beds, and testing for quality control and performance.
Our first commercial manufacturing line is located in Burnaby, BC, Canada. The line has been designed to run 24/7 with the ability to supply beds for plants that capture from 30 to 5,000 TPD of carbon. A single Svante plant capturing 3,000 TPD, for example, would capture a million tons of carbon a year, equal to eliminating the annual emissions of more than 200,000 cars.
Svante conservatively estimates there is capacity for 10,000 such plants globally, at a cost of $2 trillion.
At that level, Svante’s industrial customers could capture approximately 10 gigatonnes per year, or more than two times the emissions of all the motor vehicles on earth, including cars, buses and trucks.
This first manufacturing line, when at commercial capacity, is expected to be a profit center while serving the needs of research and development in further refining the structured adsorbent bed process.
Svante plans to roll out production in full capacity to serve the broad commercial market by the end of 2023.
Source: Svante
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