Muhaimin Iqbal
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Compact Enabler for Carbon Capture and Utilization

Advanced Renewable

Wed , 06 Mar 2024 18:34 WIB

Even though the world's enthusiasm for reducing carbon emissions is very strong,
The planet is still warming, climate change is still getting worse, extreme weather is still breaking records. Why is it that after 32 years of efforts to improve - since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro 1992 - world sustainability is still deteriorating?

The results of our research show that the majority of sustainability matters are still viewed from one side only by the industry - namely burden, not yet seen as a potential for improving the bottom-line. Carbon capture is still just a concept that must be budgeted for, while its utilization is still up in the air.

So this is the solution that we offer to industry, reducing emissions which has the opportunity to become a profit center and no longer just as a cost center. Carbon emissions are captured and converted into energy in one compact system which we call Compact Carbon Capture and Utilization (C3U). With C3U, it is very easy for industries that emit emissions to capture and utilize their emissions as a new energy source which we call Regenerative Energy.

There are four technologies that we integrated compactly in a space the size of a 20 ft container - so that it is easy to transport and install in any location. The first is FlueTrap technology, to capture CO2 directly from the source, in any industry and even on ships.

After CO2 is captured with an adsorbent, part of it is stored in the form of adsorbate to become carbon stock, part of it is reacted with carbon in the OCCYRE (Onboard Carbon Cycles for Regenerative Energy) reactor to become CO gas. CO gas can be used as fuel, or processed further using an XH2 (Extra High Hydrogen) reactor.

It is through XH2 that the quality of syngas which was originally rich in CO is improved to become rich in H2, even though it is still syngas - if the H2/CO ratio is increased to the range of 4-6, the calories per unit weight are already in the range of oil and natural gas calories, it can be very effective in replacing diesel , LPG etc. In fact, if desired, this H2-Rich Syngas (HRS) can be further purified through a fourth reactor, namely a membrane reactor - for the production of pure hydrogen.

With this, C3U has a dual function, capturing CO2 emissions while also becoming a source of new and clean energy for industry. One C3U unit is capable of capturing around 2 tons of CO2 per hour or the equivalent of the emissions released by a diesel generator with a capacity of 2 MW.

Once converted to HRS and reused as fuel for the same machine, the energy savings will range between 50 - 77%. This is where the CCU program using C3U is no longer a cost center, but has a direct impact on improving the company's bottom-line.

This C3U unit can already be ordered throughout the world, even early users of this system in each country can become our business partners in the country concerned.