Electricon

Electricon is an innovative approach to carbon dioxide capture that addresses key issues in the field today. Global CO2 emissions today are in the range of 35-40 gigaton per year, with a historic atmospheric excess of up to 1000 gigaton that needs to be removed to limit global warming to 1,5 °C increase. This is a global problem of unprecedented scale. It is clear that we need urgent simultaneous action on avoiding CO2 emissions and capturing non-abatable emissions. New technologies are rapidly emerging, but there are several key bottlenecks that need to be addressed within the same approach to make a compelling case. Current technologies predominantly look at either large scale point sources or at direct air capture. However, 80% of the point sources are ‘small’ emitters (at < 100 kton CO2 emissions per year), for which current approaches are too expensive.

The Electricon approach comes out of a combined expertise, and the technology is a smart integration of high TRL unit processes. The carbon capture is based on scrubbing with a caustic solution which has the advantage of scalability (cheap and abundant scrubbing material) and low environmental footprint (non-volatile and stable). The carbon release is based on an electrolyzer that produces hydrogen as a product, which should be used locally, for example with the recovered CO2 in a CCU process. Hence, the energy cost is allocated both over the CO2 capture and the hydrogen production, effectively increasing the ‘useful work’ per electron invested. In the Electricon approach, the CO2 is produced directly at pressure, avoiding the compression costs.

The operational model will enable smaller emitters within an industrial cluster to connect to CCUS. The client only needs to invest in a scrubber, which is a mature and inexpensive unit operation. The CO2-saturated scrubbing liquid will be transported via a liquid pipeline (which is a factor 8 cheaper than a CO2 gas pipeline) to an Electricon plant that is centralized in the industrial cluster, where the scrubbing liquid is regenerated, and the H2 and CO2 at pressure are produced.

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Electricon IP

The experimental development of the Electricon technology takes place within TripleHelix Electricon International, and all generated IP will be secured within that entity.

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Electricon OPCO

The Electricon OPCO will build and operate the first demonstration plant in the industrial cluster of a harbour, with a target capacity of 500 ton per year, and scale up towards a first of a kind Electricon plant.  

What we do

About our fields

There are many forms of recycling and quite frankly, we will need all of them at this point in time. Depending on the specific waste stream, we look for the most sustainable solution in terms of footprint, energy and value after recovery and conversion. This has led to 4 areas of interest in our portfolio.

 

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