The project will implement new methods for removing CO2 and heavy metals from the flue gas stacks of power plants or other industrial sources and produce products with economic value by utilizing Skyonic’s patented SkyMine CO2 mineralization process,.
Construction of the Capitol-SkyMine plant will begin this fall at Capitol Aggregates in San Antonio and it is expected to be fully operational in the first half of 2012.
This grant enables the company to build on over five years of laboratory testing and field work at various sites in Texas, and will help support the creation of more than 200 new jobs in the clean energy economy, the company said.
The grant, paired with private investment, will cover the material and construction cost of the facility. The Capitol-SkyMine plant is targeted to capture 75,000 metric-tonnes of CO2 emitted by Capitol Aggregates’ cement plant and mineralize the carbon dioxide-emissions as high-purity baking soda.
An additional 150,000 metric-tonnes of CO2 will be offset in the manufacture of chemical byproducts. The Capitol-SkyMine plant is expected to operate at a profit, due to the sale of these byproducts.
In addition to removing CO2 at the facility, Skyonic will remove sulfur oxides, nitrogen dioxide, mercury and other heavy metals from flue gas streams.
