Capturing carbon dioxide
AssigneeCarbon Engineering Ltd.
InventorsKenton Robert Heidel, Geoffrey James Holmes, David W. Keith
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Abstract
Techniques for drift elimination in a liquid-gas contactor system include configuring a pre-fabricated mechanical frame coupled to a drift eliminator material to produce a framed drift eliminator assembly with substantially no air gaps between the drift eliminator material and the pre-fabricated mechanical frame, and coupling the framed drift eliminator assembly to the liquid-gas contactor system.
Claims25
(canceled)
A dual-cell cross flow gas contactor for capturing atmospheric CO2, the dual-cell cross flow gas contactor comprising:
- an induced fan within a fan cowling, the induced fan coupled to a structural housing;
- one or more sections of drift eliminator material coupled to the structural housing;
- one or more sections of packing material coupled to the structural housing, the one or more sections of packing material configured to be wetted by a process solution having a CO2-absorbing capacity;
- an open plenum section coupled to the structural housing, the open plenum section defined between a first section and a second section of the one or more sections of packing material and the fan cowling;
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- a basin fluidly coupled to the one or more sections of packing material, the basin configured to collect the process solution from the one or more section of packing.
A method of operating a liquid-gas contactor system, the method comprising:
- flowing a liquid into a nozzles and basin system under a plurality of liquid flow rates, the nozzles and basin system comprising a distribution sub-assembly;
- distributing the liquid flow to a portion of a packing material fluidly coupled to the distribution sub-assembly;
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- capturing CO2 from a dilute gas source with the liquid-gas contactor system.
A system for capturing atmospheric CO2, the system comprising:
- one or more liquid-gas contactor systems each comprising:
- at least one induced fan within a respective fan cowling, the at least one induced fan coupled to at least one structural housing;
- at least one drift eliminator material coupled to the at least one structural housing;
- at least one packing material coupled to the at least one structural housing, the at least one packing material configured to be wetted by a process solution having a CO2-absorbing capacity;
- at least one basin fluidly coupled to the at least one packing material, the at least one basin configured to collect the process solution from the at least one packing material;
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- a flow control system communicably coupled to the one or more liquid-gas contactor systems, the flow control system comprising one or more flow pumps, one or more flow pipes, and one or more valves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.