Eltron Research & Development Inc. in Boulder, Colorado and Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee have agreed to jointly scale up and pilot test Eltron’s membrane system for hydrogen separation and carbon dioxide (CO2) capture. The $8 million project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Eltron’s metallic membrane system extracts pure hydrogen from a mixed gas stream, which can then be used for clean power generation, synthesis of chemicals, and other applications. The system also retains carbon dioxide at high pressure that offers the potential to reduce the costs of producing industrial hydrogen in conjunction with CO2 capture and storage.
Eltron says the technology has been in lab development eight years, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and their National Energy Technology Laboratory. The joint development and scale-up effort is underway and scheduled to culminate in a pilot demonstration in 2012 at Eastman’s coal gasification facility in Kingsport, Tennessee.
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