Design sketch of the Modern Amine Scrubber Pilot Plant to be located at Imperial College London
Designing for Carbon Capture
Strata Technology Ltd is pleased to announce that it has been appointed by Imperial College to design a state of the art Amine Scrubber Pilot Plant to research Carbon Capture. Carbon capture is a necessary element of carbon sequestration, the process of isolating and safely storing low level concentrations of carbon dioxide from waste streams instead of exhausting them into the environment. This storage can be in a number of ways, such as underground in suitable geological formations or via the use of chemical or biomass processes. Carbon Capture technology in many cases is in its infancy and there are significant research projects underway in many countries.
The Amine Scrubber Pilot Plant will be designed to fit into the ACE Extension in the Chemical Engineering Building located on the South Kensington campus. Comprising two 10-metre columns fitted with viewing windows, the rig will include the latest wireless control technology from ABB and technical advances in pump and heat exchanger technologies. The capture process involves absorbing carbon dioxide gas into a liquid amine stream in an absorber column fitted with random packing and transferring to a stripper column containing a structured packing of trays and within which the carbon dioxide is desorbed at high temperatures. In this demonstration pilot plant the desorbed carbon dioxide is recycled back to the absorber column.
Once built, the pilot plant will provide the rare opportunity for chemical engineering students to take engineering problems and solutions from the text book to real life experience.
For further information, please contact Andre Van Daele at Strata Technology Ltd on 01932 732 406 or Daryl Williams at Imperial College on d.r.williams@imperial.ac.uk.