Cool Planet Tech
- Carbon Capture Technologies (point source)
- Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage
- Membrane Separation (CO₂)
Cool Planet Technologies is a carbon capture company aiming to significantly reduce the cost of removing carbon dioxide from industrial flue gas emissions using a membrane-based technology. The process can be used across a wide range of industries and applications and can be flexibly configured from a few thousand to multi-millions of tonnes per annum (tpa).
The energy-efficient solution can capture up to 99% of the carbon dioxide from a flue gas, exporting it as either a gas or liquid with a purity of 99.9%. The compact, modular process has a small footprint, making it ideal for both retrofit and new-build solutions. Operationally, the process is extremely flexible, with rapid start-up and shut-down response and excellent turn-up/turn-down capability.
Cool Planet is working with Holcim to decarbonise their Höver cement plant near Hanover in Germany. A demonstration plant capable of capturing up to 10,000 tpa has been complete in and is currently commissioning. This plant will be followed by 100,000 tpa plants in cement and lime in 2029 and 2031, respectively.
The technology has been previously piloted in three coal-fired power stations , and a highly successful fourth pilot was completed at Höver in May 2022. There is an ongoing pilot in steel with Dillinger.
The membrane used in Cool Planet’s process was developed by Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon, part of Germany’s largest research organisation. Cool Planet and Hereon are collaborating in the development, up-scaling, demonstration and commercialisation of the technology.
Cool Planet has raised €37 million from the following investors: Taranis Carbon Ventures, ENI next, Neva SGR, Audacy Ventures CRH Ventures and BluescopeX.
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