Innovation Anthology #739:
Skyonic Corporation from Austin, Texas is working on a process that uses heat to break down salt and capture carbon dioxide from industrial emissions.
The process turns captured CO2 and residualsinto a valuable product for sale.
Skyonic is one of the Grand Challenge recipients of funding from the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation.
Skyonic’s Mark Clayton explains.
MARK CLAYTON: Skyonic Corporation is a combination of “sky”, obviously, and “ionic” chemistry. Our approach to solving the problem was to use, we’ll call it simple chemistry, but certainly inorganic chemistry which is much more straight forward. You don’t get a lot of by-product reactions, so you can actually design a process specifically to go capture a specific thing. And you don’t have to worry about other things that go through. So for us that makes it straightforward to capture CO2 because then you don’t have to be worried about concentrating a stream. The chemistry goes in and pulls the CO2 out and turns it into a product that we can then use.
According to Mark Clayton, Skyonic’s technology is ready to test in a pilot plant.
Thanks today to THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND EMISSIONS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION.
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Program Date: 2015-12-10