ION Clean Energy, a leading provider of innovative post-combustion carbon capture solutions, announced a new offering called ICE Blocks™. These standardized modular units provide customers with a cost-effective option to address smaller-scale post-combustion carbon capture from natural gas and other hard to abate flue gas emissions.
ICE Blocks™ are self-contained, fully modular carbon capture units that include the carbon capture island, flue gas ducting, CO2 compression and dehydration, and solvent and maintenance tanks. Other module options also available can include any additional balance-of-plant support that may be required by ION’s customers.
“Leveraging the high performance of our ICE-31™ solvent, we have created a truly innovative, modular capture solution that is available today,” said ION CEO Tim Vail. “In addition to our large-scale offerings, we want our customers to have commercially viable options for smaller emission sources. The ICE Blocks™ provide a proven, cost-effective, holistic solution package for those smaller scale point sources that can be deployed quickly and safely to anywhere that has road access.”
ION selected global engineering firm Modular Plant Solutions (MPS) to serve as their modularization partner on developing the ICE Blocks™ offering. Under this partnership, the MPS team led the engineering and design of the units, which will be available in multiple sizes to fit different commercial needs.
“We chose to partner with MPS because of their proven track record in modular design and highly collaborative working dynamic,” said Ben Gurtler, ION’s Chief Operating Officer. “The complementary expertise of our respective teams combined with the performance of ICE-31™ will make for a truly impactful product. We believe the work we’re doing together on ICE Blocks™ will provide the efficiency and scale we need to meet the growing demand for our carbon capture technology and will allow us to start capturing more CO2 sooner.”
As the modularization expert, MPS will leverage its extensive experience and engineering capabilities for ION’s ICE Blocks™ units. The MPS team will apply their patented modularization system approach for scaling volume production of the units.
“Our modularization design will make it possible for ION’s ICE Blocks frames to be shipped by truck, rail or containerized cargo ship, so they can get their technology to more plants in more places,” said Russell Hillenburg, President, CEO and co-founder of Modular Plant Solutions. “We are excited to contribute to the advancement of carbon capture technology and support ION Clean Energy’s mission to have a large-scale impact on global emissions reduction.”
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