题目:CO2 Management Options for Stationary Sources；Cryogenic Carbon CaptureTM Status Report

主讲人:Larry Baxter

Professor, Chemical Engineering，Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

时间:2012年6月1日 (星期五) 15:00

地点:系馆报告厅

内容简介：

This presentation outlines a disruptive carbon capture technology proven at laboratory and bench scales and independently evaluated in detail by academic and industrial institutions with expertise in this area – Cryogenic Carbon CaptureTM (CCCTM). This technology, under commercialization by Sustainable Energy Solutions (www.sustainablees.com), consumes about half of the energy and is about half as costly as the US DOE estimates for the leading alternatives. CCCTM is a bolt-on technology with modest footprint and using most equipment common to power plants and other major CO2 emitters. It is suitable to any stationary CO2 point source. In addition to capturing CO2, this process captures SOx, NO2, Hg, hydrocarbons, HCl, Hf, H2O, and essentially all heavy metals from the flue gas with effectiveness that meets or greatly exceeds that of current technologies. Indeed, the only two major current and near-future pollutants it does not capture are CO and NO, both of which can be further oxidized to form compounds that it does capture.

This presentation provides a brief outline of the CCCTM process steps, empirical results from small-scale process implementations, theoretical results from process simulation, and the status quo and current further experimental plans.

个人简介：

Larry Baxter (BS, PhD, Chemical Engineering) has been involved in biomass research for over 25 years with particular emphasis on thermal biomass processing (combustion, gasification, etc.). He joined the Chemical Engineering faculty at BYU in late 2000, having worked 14 years at Sandia National Laboratories' Combustion Research Facility. Since arriving at BYU, Larry has supervised hundreds of undergraduate and tens of graduate research projects on biomass. Four years ago, Prof. Baxter founded Sustainable Energy Solutions (SES,www.sustainablees.com), which has since grown to employ 11 full-time and 7 part-time engineers and is focused on commercialization of a disruptive carbon capture technology process. Currently the principal investigator of more than $15M in funding at BYU and SES, Prof. Baxter focuses on finding practical and economic solutions to regional and global energy and environmental issues.