A Center For Testing and Innovation
ICS3 International Carbon Capture Center
The innovation process for new adsorbent materials from the laboratory to market can take 10 to 15 years and is very expensive, so a collaborative approach is needed to improve each step of the innovation chain.
Svante, in partnership with Electricore Inc, created ICS3 to focus on the demonstration, testing, and education of second-generation CO₂ capture technology using advanced solid adsorbent materials. The center’s objective is to move novel solid adsorbent materials from the laboratory to operational power and industrial plants, and to establish new standards in the characterization of new adsorbent materials and benchmark the performance of CO₂ capture processes using rapid cycles. The planned work is centred on Svante’s carbon capture technology platform.
Initially, the centre will leverage Svante’s state-of-the-art testing facilities in Burnaby, BC; and, subsequently, the National Carbon Capture Centre (NCCC) in Alabama, US, and Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) in Norway. Svante demonstration units of 100-to-500 kg per day will be deployed at these testing facilities over the next few years.