A carbon capture project developed at the University of Sherbrooke will be among the technologies used by Deep Sky at its future carbon capture and storage test site. CO2, which should be launched in the Montreal region in the coming months.
Source of the article
Stephanie Blais | The Canadian Press
The Montreal company Deep Sky has set itself the mission of extracting the main greenhouse gas, CO2, and sequester it in the soil.
It plans to create an “Alpha” site in Quebec to test different carbon elimination technologies with the aim of deploying them on a large scale.
Among the technologies to be studied is an installation designed by the start-up Skyrenu, which shoots and captures the CO2 directly from the atmosphere.
The facility developed by a team from the University of Sherbrooke resembles five shipping containers stacked on top of each other. Each of these machines has a sequestration capacity of 1000 tons of CO2 a year.
"It's a bit like a sponge through which large volumes of air are passed with fans, and this sponge is specially [designed] to retain the CO2 ", said Martin Brouillette, professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke.
"And when the sponge is saturated with CO2, it is heated with steam to release the CO2, which can be recovered in high purity,” explained the professor.
The capture system of CO2 Skyrenu is a modular direct air capture device. It can therefore be deployed to capture the CO2 practically anywhere.
"We have to deliver our machine by the end of the year and, according to our information, the Deep Sky site should be in Montreal East," explained Martin Brouillette.
See the original article:https://www.ledevoir.com/environnement/804993/skyrenu-associe-projet-capture-stockage-co-deep-sky
