CapsolGo®
Capsol's Mobile Test Units
CapsolGo® is a mobile carbon capture demonstration unit designed to accelerate investment decisions by allowing customers to verify Capsol's technology on their own facilities' flue gas before committing to a full-scale capture plant
CapsolGo® is Capsol's mobile carbon capture demonstration units - a low threshold tool for emitters who would like to test and learn more about carbon capture, and how a carbon capture solution would work on their flue gas before committing to full-scale implementation.
The all-inclusive CapsolGo® test campaign covers transport, installation, operation and reporting, providing customers with valuable real-world performance data on their specific flue gas composition including liquefaction.
By demonstrating capture effectiveness, energy efficiency and solvent performance, CapsolGo® helps emitters de-risk their investment decisions and build internal and external stakeholder confidence in carbon capture. It also supports funding applications by providing independent third-party validation.
Technology description
All emitting facilities are different. However, what comes out of a carbon capture process must be standardised CO₂. Carbon capture is the bridge between point source CO₂ emission and, later, conditioning and transport. As a result, there is a need to demonstrate that the capture and liquefaction solutions can achieve high CO₂ capture rates under various operating conditions for different industries: biomass, energy-from-waste, cement, petrochemicals, and others.
The CapsolGo® demonstration campaigns are used to build valuable knowledge as CCS projects move toward full-scale implementation by answering questions such as:
• What are the actual contaminants and impurities in the flue gas within various operating conditions of the host plant?
• How does the HPC solvent behave with these contaminants and impurities?
• How do varying flue gas and operating conditions impact carbon capture performance?
• Are there any additional corrosion risks?
In addition, clients typically measure average emission data for reporting reasons. However, there can be seasonal or instantaneous variability. Making sure all cases are covered is important. With CapsolGo®, short term variations such as peaks, minimums, and maximums are exposed. Experience also shows that the flue gas conditions are often less known to the client than the plant owners initially thought. This is another advantage of running a CapsolGo demonstration campaign early in the project, to reduce uncertainties. The early detection of these specificities is one of the keys to a successful project.
The CapsolGo® demonstration units are also often used as a communication tool, to build social acceptance, get public funding, secure internal support, and for training and educational purposes.
Benefits
A fully electric carbon capture demonstration unit used to replicate key aspects of the CapsolEoP® HPC (hot potassium carbonate) carbon capture process
Easy setup with two 20ft containers supporting a 40ft frame on top
A powerful tool to de-risk the fullscale capture facility and demonstrate safe carbon capture to various stakeholders
All-inclusive package: transport, installation, equipment, chemicals, rig down, transport from clients' site, and people
Typical length of campaigns: six months to one year
Liquefaction unit available for connection to the CapsolGo® capture unit.
Can provide food grade CO₂
R&D center accelerates development
The CapsolGo® units are also valuable tools for our internal testing of the CapsolEoP® technology.
Between client campaigns, we run research and development initiatives to further develop the technology.
With the CapsolGo® demonstration units, we can easily check concepts developed in our R&D Center lab in Stavanger, using CapsolGo® as the platform to test the solutions the team has developed.
